ation had an extreme effect on the human body. Those exposed in the open to the direct heat rays were burned through the skin and into the tissues below. Babies with burns covering their entire bodies and men whose skin had melted from their heads were just some of the horrors suffered by the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Intense thermal heat emitted by the fireball caused severe burns and loss of eyesight. Four kinds of radiation are included in initial radiation: alpha rays, beta rays, gamma rays and neutron rays. Those which had an effect on the ground were gamma rays and neutron rays. Alpha and beta rays have a low penetration power and are believed to have been absorbed in the air before reaching the ground. High levels of residual radiation were present on the ground for a certain period of time starting one minute after the explosion. It is quite likely that anyone entering the area within 100 hours after the explosion to search for people or help with relief efforts was affected by radiation coming from the soil and other such places due to the induced radioactivity. In addition, soot and dust saturated with induced radiation from nuclear fission products and unfissioned uranium scattered at the time of the bombing were carried high into the atmosphere and later fell to the ground as radioactive fallout, giving rise to further possibilities for contamination. The potential effects of radiation continue to threaten the lives of the survivors even today and have caused considerable psychological damage. Long after the acute effects of radiation had subsided, radiation damage continued to produce a wide range of physical problems. Aftereffects, including leukemia, cancer, and many others, appeared two, three, even ten years later. Exposure to radiation in 1945 continues to this day to threaten the health and well-being of the survivors. The issue of genetic effects of the bombs on human health after several generatio...
