Dear MEL Topic Readers,
"Atomic bomb hell must never be repeated" say Japan's last
survivors
At 8:15 am on August 6, 1945, the United States of America
dropped an atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb blasted
and burned everything within 1.6 kilometers of the detonation point. The exact
number of people killed by the blast, firestorm, and radiation effects of the
bombing is unknown, but it is estimated that as many as 140,000 people died by
the end of the year from the effects of the bomb.
At 11:00 am on August 9, another atomic bomb nicknamed Fat
Man was dropped on Nagasaki. Even though the bomb was more powerful than the one
used on Hiroshima, the effects were confined by hillsides to a narrow valley. Still,
between 60,000 and 80,000 people are estimated to have died by the end of the
year.
Not all injuries from the atomic bombs were instantly
visible. In the weeks and months after the blast, many people in both cities
began to show symptoms of radiation poisoning - and there were increased levels
of leukemia and cancer. Those survivors had to live very difficult lives. 79
years have passed since the two inhumane bombings in human history, and there
are only a small number of survivors from those bombings.
Read the article and learn what those atomic-bombing survivors
experienced in their lives.
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