in cause of death, but it did stillhave serious results. In Hiroshima, the initial nuclear radiation was spread over a distanceof approximately fifty-three hundredths of a kilometer. In Nagasaki, the initial nuclearradiation only spread one and six thousandths of a kilometer (The Committee for theCompilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in HiroshimanadNagasaki, 1981). The reason why the nuclear radiation was not the main caused ofdeaths or injuries was that the atomic bomb was detonated so high in the atmosphere;approximately five hundred and seventy meters in Hiroshima, and approximately fivehundred and ten meters in Nagasaki (Outlaw Labs). Even without causing many deathsthenuclear radiation probably caused the most serious effects. Those with definite proof werethose of increased rates of cataracts, leukemia, cancer of the thyroid, cancer of the breast,cancer of the lungs, cancer of the stomach, and mental retardation on babies inutero.Those that had substantial but not definite proof were those of tumors of the esophagus,tumors of the colon, tumors of the salivary glands, and tumors of the urinary tract organs.Those that had no definite nor substantial proof were those of increasedrates of birthmortality, birth defects, infertility, and susceptibility towards illnesses (Physicians andScientists on Nuclear War, 1981). The total number of people effected by the nuclearradiation was estimated to be thiry-five thousand people in Hiroshima, and twenty-onethousand people in Nagasaki (The Committee on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bomb inHiroshima and Nagasaki). Either the blast, the thermal radiation, or the nuclear radiationfrom an atomic bomb explosion will have severe effects on both humans and on theenvironment in which they live in. The only two cities that have ever experienced havingan atomic bomb being exploded on them were the Japanese cities of Hiroshima andNagasakiduring World War II. In Hirsohima, the total ...
