At nine fifteen on august sixth in 1945, an atom bomb of fifteen kilotons was dropped on Hiroshima. It was detonated one thousand, eight hundred feet over the ground. The plane that dropped the bomb was the Enola Gay aircraft bomber. The same thing happened on August ninth over Nagasaki. The fatalities of Hiroshima were seventy thousand and Nagasaki forty thousand. The affects of the atomic bomb, or death-causing factors are the blast wave, thermal and nuclear radiation. Radiation affects the skin and cell reproduction. People in the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima experienced both long-term and short-term affects from the radiation. Though the bombing of Hiroshima brought the immediate end of World War Two, the use of the atomic bomb had grave effects on the people and the cities of Hiroshima.
The atomic bomb not only destroyed the city of Hiroshima, but also effected thousands of people and caused thousands of deaths immediately after the bombing. The people exposed to the high temperature of the heat waves and radiation experienced third and second-degree burns. The burns melted away skin, and burned through to tissue and internal organs. A-bomb burns can be classified as primary burns (from direct exposure to the heat r
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Therefor, when some people came to the area afterwards they would soon develop symptoms of radiation sickness and most died. In the city, thousands of people were caught under the debris and were burnt to death by the fires, which were ignited by the intense heat rays. In severe cases, this problem was accompanied with retardation. Nervous disorders of headaches, delirium, and insomnia were seen. Many were stillborn, and exposed fetuses born alive had higher infant mortality rates than other children did. The only good thing that came out of the atomic bomb dropping was that Japan surrendered. 2 kilometers of the hypocenter, those exposed in the open to the direct heat rays were burned through the skin and into the tissue below; even the internal organs were damaged.
After the dropping of the atomic bomb by the United States on Japan, an unbelievable amount of lives were lost. If it reaches the stratosphere (upper air), the debris won't fall back to earth for years. This type of swelling is called a keloid. Leukemia is malignancy of the blood cells and causes white cells to over produce and lose their function, inevitably causing the body to be unable to resist disease. The radiation has also affected some of the fetuses of people whose lives were touched by this tragedy. The radioactive debris drifts back to earth after the explosion.
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