g from the bomb. The "pica babies" were children born with abnormalities like mental retardation, from being exposed to radiation in the wombs of their mothers. These children were now forty-four years old in 1989.
             Mental retardation was not the only thing these victims suffered from. There were severe burns, cancer, leukemia, and loss of limbs, being crushed under their own homes, as well a psychological problem's from which they will probably need therapy for the rest of their lives, in order to live completely fulfilling lives. This is what Dr. Yamazaki, a pediatrician, was sent to do in 1989. He was sent to Nagasaki, then Hiroshima to help victims. "Many survivors thought we had come to use them simply as guinea pigs..." 1. James N. Yamazaki, Children of the Atomic Bomb (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995), 12. People were hostile and upset about the bombing. They were skeptical about our concerns for their well-being. But eventually trust was gained and help was accepted.
             Police officers, search parities, and people missing parts of their families set out in search for bodies, shortly after the attacks. It took weeks to remove all of the dead bodies from the Urakami Valley (Yamazaki,14.) Most of the victims that were still alive suffered from severe radiation. The trauma, both physically and psychologically, was undoubtedly universal. Digging through debris, finding floating bodies in the harbor, all of these things were extremely stressful and had to take a big toll on the future of all of these people. A doctor named Dr. Yant Shirabe said, "I looked around and saw a huge brown cloud over the sky and the sun looking bloody red through that cloud. People were suffering from wounds and some of the victims' entire bodies were burned with skin hanging from their limbs and body like thin strips of paper dipped in blood." (Yamazaki,64).
             Yamazaki describes in detai...