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Thousand of people were slowly making their way from Problems to get medicines, food and water increased
the city to the river, all badly burned. the suffering.
They rested at the entrance of the one cave the first For a long time people thought it might flew another
night. plane with another bomb.
INJURY PHASES
First two weeks: mainly burns from rays and flames, and wounds (trauma) from blast and falling structures.
3rd week through 8th week: symptoms of damages by radioactive rays, e.g., loss of hair, anemia, loss of white
cells, bleeding, diarrhea. Approximately 10% of cases in this group were fatal.
3rd and 4th months: “some improvement” in burn, trauma, and even radiation
injuries. But then came “secondary injuries” of disfiguration, severe scar formations (keloids), blood
abnormalities, sterility (both sexes), and psychosomatic disorders.
Even now, after over half a century later, many aftereffects remain: leukemia,
A-bomb cataracts, and cancers of thyroid, breast, lungs, salivary glands, birth defects, including mental
retardation, and fears of birth defects in their children, plus, of course, the disfiguring keloid scar
STORY
After a number of the other difficult situations she graduated from high school and enter the university in
Kyoto, she Studied Arts for 4 years and after that she became an Art teacher at the high school.
When she was 50, her sister who had moved to Australia and invited her them she migrated to Sydney.
She wants to keep telling this story for people as long as she can.
THE UNITED STATES
"Having found the bomb we have used it. We have
used it against those who attacked us without warning
at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and
beaten and executed American prisoners of war,
against those who have abandoned all pretense of
obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it
in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save
the lives of thousands and thousands of young
Americans."
PRESIDENT HARRY S TRUMAN
ALBERT EINSTEIN
In 1939 Einstein sent a Letter to President Roosevelt.
Einstein considered his duty bring the attention for
a new discover with uranium.
“This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is
conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of this
type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and
exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of
the surrounding territory”.
-Albert Einstein
QUESTIONS
WHAT WOULD ANY MORAL PERSON HAVE DONE IN PRESIDENT
TRUMAN’S POSITION?
TRUMAN, H, 1945, "Public Papers of the Presidents: Harry S Truman, 1945", pg. 212