A study has found that, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, radiation-related deaths among survivors accounted for only 1 percent of the total.
Philip Thomas, professor of risk management at Bristol University, said that despite the slightly elevated risk the survivors faced as a result of their exposure to radiation in 1945, their lives will, on average, have been “decades longer than those of their forebears.”
On Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, the United States detonated atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
The study, published in the latest Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry, said that the Hiroshima bomb fissioned enriched uranium almost 2,000 feet above the ground to produce an effect similar to 16 kt of TNT exploding….
Radiation Linked to Just 1 Percent of Deaths Among Hiroshima and Nagasaki Survivors, Study Finds
