medical effects of the atomic bomb in japan: ashley w. oughterson and shields warren; national nuclear energy series, div. viii, vol. 8. mcgraw-hill, london, new york, 1956. xiii + 477 pp., 60sdoi:10.1016/0020-708X(58)90095-4O.A. Trowell...
initiated a huge epidemiologic study of the genetics effects of exposure to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima or Nagasaki three years earlier. He was well prepared for this endeavor, having trained as a physician after receiving his doctoral degree in Drosophila genetics. His work in Japan began when...
Cancer and non-cancer effects in Japanese atomic bomb survivors* The survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are a general population of all ages and sexes and, because of the wide and well characteris... MP Little - 《Journal of Radiological Protection》 被引量: 182发表:...
This book focuses on the lifelong effects of atomic radiation exposure in language understandable by the concerned layperson or the specialist in another field. The base of knowledge used is the work of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and its successor since 1975 the Radiation Effects Research ...
The operations order was carried on the Enola Gay in the flight log of Jacob Beser, the radar and electronics specialist trained to intercept any Japanese radar impulses that could trigger the special radar-operated fusing switch built into the atomic bomb. Beser was the only crew member to fly...
highly irregular with age having usually deep seated roots that are wind and snow resistant. Ginkgo biloba trees are very tolerant against disturbances that it can grow well in urban areas. It is even reported that few Ginkgo trees survived the damaging effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima ...
It has been 70 years since the atomic bombs fell upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Few survivors remain today and soon there will be none. Who then can speak from personal experiences of the effects of nuclear war upon humanity? Combining material from many sources, theHiroshima Archive providesa co...
Thirty-three children who were exposed while to the Hiroshima atomic bomb have head circumferences 2 or more standard deviations below normal. Twenty-four of these were between the seventh and fifteenth week of gestational age at the time of detonation of the bomb. The incidence and the severity...
A severe earthquake may release energy 10,000 times as great as that of the first atomic bomb. Rock movements during an earthquake can make rivers change their courses. Earthquakes can trigger landslides that cause great damage and loss of life. Large earthquakes beneath the ocean can create a...
The radiation release was thirty to forty times that of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of people were ultimately evacuated from the most heavily contaminated zone surrounding Chernobyl. Radiation spread to encompass almost all of Europe and Asia Minor;...