What about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?(Letter to the editor)Grant, Susan
After the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the Second World War, members of the Bulletin saw a need to help the public understand the scale of the nuclear threat to the existence of humanity. To this day, the Bulletin's science and security board, m...
Lindee, M.S. What is a mutation? Identifying heritable change in the offspring of survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.J Hist Biol25, 231–255 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00162841 Download citation Issue DateJune 1992 DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/BF00162841 ...
specialized hospitals in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have treated more than 10,000 officially recognized survivors of the 1945 blasts, with most deaths in this group attributable to cancers.Leukemiarates in radiation-exposed victims were four to five times typical levels in the ...
The Potsdam Declaration is significant in the history of Jpan because it is responsible for the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki which led to massive destruction of property and lives. The bombing occurred due to Japan's stubbornness to respond to the Potsdam Declaration....
s team inserted their electrode array into the skull of a man who was undergoing brain surgery to treat a disease. He was kept awake during his operation so that surgeons could make sure they weren’t damaging any vital regions of his brain. And all the while, the electrodes were picking...
not just its military. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the textbook example. A “tactical” weapon, on the other hand, would be used for some specific gain in the theater of war. “A tactical nuclear weapon is basically a weapon that you would use to gain advantage...
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the exposure to radiation of nuclear workers have raised fears about lasting damage to the human gene pool. High-energy radiation can injure chromosomes, and if these are in sperm or eggs, that damage could be inherited...
For instance, a 2012 study by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists found that just 100 nuclear detonations of the size that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki would usher in a planetary nuclear winter, which would drop temperatures lower than they were in the Little Ice Age, Live Science ...
as nuclear war assuredmutually assured destruction. Thebombing of Hiroshima and Nagasakiby the United States showed the apocalyptic possibilities of total nuclear war. Five years after this event, the International Humanitarian Law outlawed any weapons that were indiscriminate (and though nuclear weapons ...