"Little Boy"
Transcript: Half an hour after the bomb exploded, "black rain" began to fall It has been describe as a "tarry" substance that stained anything that it fell on black This rain carried the radioactive fallout and spread it into areas past Hiroshima Those affected by the black rain also were affected by radiation poisoning Water Contamination and Radiation water Nagasaki and "Fat Man” Black Rain and Radioactive Fallout Cancer and the Survivors "Little Boy" August 6, 1945, President Truman ordered to drop the bomb on Hiroshima 8000 pounds of Uranium at 8:15AM About 80,000 people including at least 12 American POWs were killed within 1640 ft Total Casualties 135,000 three days later Nagasaki was hit The initial target for this mission was supposed to be Kokura, Japan because it was a heavily industrialized but due to cloud coverage the mission was moved to Nagasaki 80,000 deaths, including those from radiation poisoning were recorded shortly after Japan surrenders Those who survived still fear for their lives and their children's lives Many suffered lung, liver, cancer, and breast cancer and Leukemia Children worried what kind of cancer they'd get, seeing their parents were exposed to a large amount of radiation A full blown study took place in 2005 Unborn children didn't escape the bomb either "One of the most conspicuous signs of the horror is the children whose mothers were hit while carrying them. Most of them perished before birth, but of those who survived some were born with heads abnormally small and are severely mentally -retarded" (After Effects). Some were born with literally no brain Some got radiation poisoning from breast milk Some of the people were not killed after the blast Later most people died from radiation exposure Vomiting, diarrhea, swollen mouth and throat bleeding were the first symptoms that appeared weird bluish spots began to show on survivors too Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission was created in 1947 under the watch of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Their purpose was to study the short and long term effects of radiation exposure Infants and Radiation Disease X The water became contaminated with the nuclear fallout dead bodies floating in the river people died almost immediately after drinking the water Many people had noticed that after they drank the water the unlucky survivors would cough up a yellow substance
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