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On Nov 3, 5:18 pm, Chuck Gould wrote:
On Nov 2, 11:23?pm, Hiroshima Facts wrote: On Nov 2, 1:59 pm, Chuck Gould wrote: Japanese people continued to die from radiation poisoning for many years after the explosions, with more than 500,000 civilian deaths by 1951. Nope. The death rate returned to normal a few months after the A- bombs. There have only been a few thousand deaths attributed to A- bomb radiation since 1945. Not according to the cirriculum from a course called "Atomic America" taught at the University of New Mexico: "From three to thirty years after the bombing the number of cases of leukemia in Hiroshima was fifteen times higher than that of the rest of Japan (Shohno 62). Leukemia results when abnormal white blood cells produce wildly; it is a type of blood cancer. The blue stigmata (marks) that radiation victims exhibit are a symptom of leukemia. They result from blood so filled with white cells that it loses its red color. The white blood cells caused by leukemia tend to clump together instead of fighting bacteria. Therefore, those with leukemia are very susceptible to other infections. Usually they die from pneumonia that their immune system cannot fight off. Most cancers have a longer incubation period than does leukemia. At Hiroshima fifteen years after the bomb, death by non-blood cancers began to increase among survivors who had been exposed to more than 100 rads of radiation (Shohno 62). Lung cancer, breast cancer, and thyroid cancer are all stimulated by high dosages of radiation. Cancers of the colon, stomach, urinary organs, and blood marrow are also probably linked to dosages of radiation. The uranium miners in the United States who provided the raw material to fuel the nuclear programs have reported much higher incidence of lung cancer than normal (Justice)." That quote does not contradict the fact that there were only a few thousand deaths due to A-bomb radiation after 1945. It is true that a few hundred of those deaths were Leukemia though. |
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