Nuclear weapons are feared the world over due to their unparalleled destructive strength and their potential to sicken populations with radiation. These effects are known not just from thousands ...

“If a woman follows the 10-year protocol of getting a mammogram every year or every six months she is getting as much radiation as a woman had at Hiroshima the atomic bomb if she stood a mile ...

Thousands of people died during the Hiroshima bombing, both immediately and from radiation symptoms weeks later. Prior to the Hiroshima bombing, the population of the city was 350,000. Of those ...

The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targets of the first “atomic” bombs ever used in war, which killed tens of thousands through radiation exposure, but the absence of excess ...

TO evaluate the late biologic consequences of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is an evident need for determination of the type and total dose of radiation received by ...

Most of what is known today about the health effects of atomic radiation stems from research on the Japanese atomic bomb survivors. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 ...

At 8.15am on August 6 1945, a single atomic bomb dropped by the US military obliterated Hiroshima, claiming an estimated 140,000 lives by the year’s end. Markin ...

The National Academies, through its Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board ... and future of RERF as it is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary and move to Hiroshima University’s Kasumi Campus from ...