Affects from Atomic Bomb Radiation By: Naydalisse Montijo

Radiation Affects on Humans Many People at Hiroshima and Nagasaki died not from the actual explosion, but from the radiation. For example, a 14-year-old boy was taken to a hospital two days after the explosion suffering from high fever an nausea. 9 days later his hair began to fall out. His supply of white blood cells dropped lower and lower. On the 17 th day he began to bleed from his nose and on the 21 st day he died.

Atomic Bombing on Hiroshima By the end of 1945, because of the lingering affects of radioactive fallout and other after affects the death toll was probably over 100,000.

Atomic Bomb Affects on People " 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."

Radiation exposure "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."

Dangerous Bombs "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."