It outlines the probable effects of an atomic bomb explosion upon an American city and discusses a few aspects of atomic defense. Dr. Lapp, formerly Assistant Director of the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, is now Executive Director of the Committee on Atomic Energy of the Research and ...
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...
Reduced rate of disease development after HIV-2 infection as compared to HIV-1 Human immunodeficiency virus type-2 (HIV-2) is a close relative of the prototype acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) virus, HIV-1. HIV-2 is biologica... R Marlink,P Kanki,I Thior,... - 《Science》 被...
2 Correlation between lifestyle and mortality in Atomic Bomb Survivors(Atomic bomb effects, Abstracts of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Japan Radiation Res... 2 Correlation between lifestyle and mortality in Atomic Bomb Survivors(Atomic bomb effects, Abstracts of the 46th Annual Meeting of the ...
Earthquakes are among the most powerful events on earth, and their results can be terrifying. 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 ...
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...
Characteristic features of leukemia among atomic bomb survivors were studied. The ratio of a single leukemia type to all leukemias was highest for CML in Hiroshima, and the occurrence of CML was thought to be most characteristic for atomic bomb radiation induced leukemia. In the distribution of AM...
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;...
Prenatal exposure to external radiation has been linked to growth retardation among atomic bomb survivors in adolescence. It is unclear from previous studies whether in utero exposure to internal radiation such as iodine-131 (I-131), whi... G Neta,M Hatch,CM Kitahara,... - 《Radiation Researc...
World War II Museum Boston More than seventy years ago, the world changed forever when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb, "Little Boy," over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, during World War II, on August 6, 1945. The bomb wiped out 90 percent of ...