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(NA). (ND).Radiation Effects on Humans. Retrieved 11-30-10 from http://library.thinkquest.org/3471/radiation_effects_body.html "Many people at Hiroshima and Nagasaki died not from the actual explosion, but from the radiation released from the explosion. For example, a fourteen-year-old boy was taken to a Hiroshima hospital two days after the explosion, suffering from a high fever and nausea. Nine days later his hair began to fall out. His supply of white blood cells dropped lower and lower. On the seventeenth day he began to bleed from his nose, and on the twenty-first day he died."

Gode,Y. 2-8-2010 Atomic Bomb Affects on people Retrieved 11-30-10 from []

"The effect of a nuclear explosion on humans is extreme. Any life form close enough to the point of detonation, within a radius of 4 to 6 miles, is certain to perish. Most of the damage on the human body is caused by a combination of the static over pressures and the high speed blast winds which can exceed a thousand miles/h. Even if a human manages to survive these physical forces, damages caused by the radioactive debris dropping from the top will eventually take its toll. In Hiroshima, black radioactive ash, known as 'black rain', kept on falling from the sky for over an hour after the detonation."

Groves,L.(ND). Atomic Bombing on Hiroshima Retrieved 11-30-10 from []

" By the end of 1945, because of the lingering effects of radioactive **fallout** and other after effects, the Hiroshima death toll was probably over 100,000. The five-year death total may have reached or even exceeded 200,000, as cancer and other long-term effects took hold."

(NA). 9-15-10 Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors Retrieved 12-1-10 from []

"We found that radiation exposure increased the risks of first and second cancers to a similar degree,” said first author Li, a breast cancer epidemiologist and member of the Public Health Sciences Division at the Hutchinson Center. “People exposed to radiation who developed cancer also had a high risk of developing a second cancer, and the risk was similar for both solid tumors and leukemia in both men and women, regardless of age at exposure or duration between first and second primary cancers,” he said. The association between radiation exposure and risk of second cancers was particularly significant for radiation-sensitive cancers, such as those of the lung, colon, breast, thyroid and bladder, as well as leukemia."

(NA).(ND).Children of the Atomic Bomb Retrieved 12-1-10 from [|http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/index.html]

"The nature of an atomic explosion explains the magnitude of the human casualties in the immediate and delayed aftermath. A measure of the enormity of the energy released by atomic weapons is that the light of the bomb in brightness is comparable to the sun, and the temperatures and pressure are comparable to those in the sun’s interior. The light rays consist of thermal radiation that burns the cities and bodies and nuclear radiation that penetrates the body."