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Effects of Atomic Bombs in Japan

5/7/2020

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This web page from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons gives a brief description of the effects of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If you scroll down, there's a video in which a Hiroshima survivor tells her story: 
https://www.icanw.org/hiroshima_and_nagasaki_bombings 

There is more extensive information on this page from the Atomic Heritage Foundation. You can also scroll down to the bottom to hear testimony from a Nagasaki survivor: 
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/survivors-hiroshima-and-nagasaki 

This article from Smithsonian magazine discusses the research that is still being undertaken to understand the long-term health effects of the atomic bombs: 
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-bombings-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-still-inform-health-today-180956185/
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