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Tokyo's first indication that the city had been destroyed by a new type of bomb came from President Truman's announcement of the strike, sixteen hours later. After the Hiroshima bombing, Truman issued a statement announcing the use of the new weapon. He stated, "We may be grateful to Providence" that the German atomic bomb project had failed, and that the United States and its allies had "spent two billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history—and won". Truman then warned Japan: "If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth. Behind this air attack will follow sea and land forces in such numbers and power as they have not yet seen and with the fighting skill of which they are already well aware. The 50,watt standard wave station on Saipan , the OWI radio station , broadcast a similar message to Japan every 15 minutes about Hiroshima, stating that more Japanese cities would face a similar fate in the absence of immediate acceptance of the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and emphatically urged civilians to evacuate major cities. Radio Japan , which continued to extoll victory for Japan by never surrendering, [88] had informed the Japanese of the destruction of Hiroshima by a single bomb. The senior leadership of the Japanese Army began preparations to impose martial law on the nation, with the support of Minister of War Korechika Anami , to stop anyone attempting to make peace. On August 7, a day after Hiroshima was destroyed, Dr. Yoshio Nishina and other atomic physicists arrived at the city, and carefully examined the damage. They then went back to Tokyo and told the cabinet that Hiroshima was indeed destroyed by a nuclear weapon. Admiral Soemu Toyoda , the Chief of the Naval General Staff, estimated that no more than one or two additional bombs could be readied, so they decided to endure the remaining attacks, acknowledging "there would be more destruction but the war would go on". Parsons said that Project Alberta would have it ready by August 11, but Tibbets pointed to weather reports indicating poor flying conditions on that day due to a storm, and asked if the bomb could be readied by August 9. Parsons agreed to try to do so. The city of Nagasaki had been one of the largest seaports in southern Japan, and was of great wartime importance because of its wide-ranging industrial activity, including the production of ordnance , ships, military equipment, and other war materials. The four largest companies in the city were Mitsubishi Shipyards, Electrical Shipyards, Arms Plant, and Steel and Arms Works, which employed about 90 percent of the city's labor force, and accounted for 90 percent of the city's industry. Unlike the other target cities, Nagasaki had not been placed off limits to bombers by the Joint Chiefs of Staff's July 3 directive, [] [] and was bombed on a small scale five times. During one of these raids on August 1, a number of conventional high-explosive bombs were dropped on the city. A few hit the shipyards and dock areas in the southwest portion of the city, and several hit the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works. In contrast to Hiroshima, almost all of the buildings were of old-fashioned Japanese construction, consisting of timber or timber-framed buildings with timber walls with or without plaster and tile roofs. Many of the smaller industries and business establishments were also situated in buildings of timber or other materials not designed to withstand explosions. Nagasaki had been permitted to grow for many years without conforming to any definite city zoning plan; residences were erected adjacent to factory buildings and to each other almost as closely as possible throughout the entire industrial valley. On the day of the bombing, an estimated , people were in Nagasaki, including , Japanese residents, 10, Korean residents, 2, conscripted Korean workers, 9, Japanese soldiers, conscripted Chinese workers, and Allied prisoners of war in a camp to the north of Nagasaki. Responsibility for the timing of the second bombing was delegated to Tibbets. Scheduled for August 11 against Kokura, the raid was moved earlier by two days to avoid a five-day period of bad weather forecast to begin on August On August 8, a dress rehearsal was conducted off Tinian by Sweeney using Bockscar as the drop airplane. Assembly F was expended testing the components and F was designated for the August 9 mission. The mission plan for the second attack was nearly identical to that of the Hiroshima mission, with two Bs flying an hour ahead as weather scouts and two additional Bs in Sweeney's flight for instrumentation and photographic support of the mission. Sweeney took off with his weapon already armed but with the electrical safety plugs still engaged. This fuel would still have to be carried all the way to Japan and back, consuming still more fuel. Replacing the pump would take hours; moving the Fat Man to another aircraft might take just as long and was dangerous as well, as the bomb was live. Tibbets and Sweeney therefore elected to have Bockscar continue the mission. This time Penney and Cheshire were allowed to accompany the mission, flying as observers on the third plane, Big Stink , flown by the group's operations officer, Major James I. Hopkins, Jr. Observers aboard the weather planes reported both targets clear. When Sweeney's aircraft arrived at the assembly point for his flight off the coast of Japan, Big Stink failed to make the rendezvous. Bock , who was piloting the support B The Great Artiste. Before leaving the rendezvous point, Sweeney consulted Ashworth, who was in charge of the bomb. As commander of the aircraft, Sweeney made the decision to proceed to the primary, the city of Kokura. After exceeding the original departure time limit by nearly a half-hour, Bockscar , accompanied by The Great Artiste , proceeded to Kokura, thirty minutes away. The delay at the rendezvous had resulted in clouds and drifting smoke over Kokura from fires started by a major firebombing raid by Bs on nearby Yahata the previous day. Three bomb runs were made over the next 50 minutes, burning fuel and exposing the aircraft repeatedly to the heavy defenses around Kokura, but the bombardier was unable to drop visually. By the time of the third bomb run, Japanese anti-aircraft fire was getting close, and Second Lieutenant Jacob Beser , who was monitoring Japanese communications, reported activity on the Japanese fighter direction radio bands. With fuel running low because of the failed fuel pump, Bockscar and The Great Artiste headed for their secondary target, Nagasaki. After initially deciding that if Nagasaki were obscured on their arrival the crew would carry the bomb to Okinawa and dispose of it in the ocean if necessary, Ashworth agreed with Sweeney's suggestion that a radar approach would be used if the target was obscured. A few minutes later at Japanese Time, The Great Artiste dropped instruments attached to three parachutes. These instruments also contained an unsigned letter to Professor Ryokichi Sagane, a physicist at the University of Tokyo who studied with three of the scientists responsible for the atomic bomb at the University of California, Berkeley , urging him to tell the public about the danger involved with these weapons of mass destruction. The messages were found by military authorities but not turned over to Sagane until a month later. At Japanese Time, a last-minute break in the clouds over Nagasaki allowed Bockscar ' s bombardier, Captain Kermit Beahan , to visually sight the target as ordered. Bockscar flew on to Okinawa, arriving with only sufficient fuel for a single approach. Sweeney tried repeatedly to contact the control tower for landing clearance, but received no answer. He could see heavy air traffic landing and taking off from Yontan Airfield. The number two engine died from fuel starvation as he began the final approach. Touching down on only three engines midway down the landing strip, Bockscar bounced up into the air again for about 25 feet 7. The heavy B slewed left and towards a row of parked B bombers before the pilots managed to regain control. Its reversible propellers were insufficient to slow the aircraft adequately, and with both pilots standing on the brakes, Bockscar made a swerving degree turn at the end of the runway to avoid running off it. A second engine died from fuel exhaustion before the plane came to a stop. Following the mission, there was confusion over the identification of the plane. The first eyewitness account by war correspondent William L. He also noted its "Victor" number as 77, which was that of Bockscar. Except for Enola Gay , none of the d's Bs had yet had names painted on the noses, a fact which Laurence himself noted in his account. Unaware of the switch in aircraft, Laurence assumed Victor 77 was The Great Artiste , [] which was in fact, Victor Although the bomb was more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima, its effects were confined by hillsides to the narrow Urakami Valley. Some 17,—22, others who worked in other war plants and factories in the city died as well. Because of the presence of undocumented foreign workers, and a number of military personnel in transit, there are great discrepancies in the estimates of total deaths by the end of ; a range of 39, to 80, can be found in various studies. The Mitsubishi Electric Works suffered only 10 percent structural damage as it was on the border of the main destruction zone. The Nagasaki Arsenal was destroyed in the blast. Instead, the ambient wind at the time pushed the fire spread along the valley. As in Hiroshima, the bombing badly dislocated the city's medical facilities. A makeshift hospital was established at the Shinkozen Primary School, which served as the main medical centre. The trains were still running, and evacuated many victims to hospitals in nearby towns. A medical team from a naval hospital reached the city in the evening, and fire-fighting brigades from the neighboring towns assisted in fighting the fires. He received a serious injury that severed his right temporal artery, but joined the rest of the surviving medical staff in treating bombing victims. Groves expected to have another "Fat Man" atomic bomb ready for use on August 19, with three more in September and a further three in October; [87] a second Little Boy bomb using U would not be available until December This modified the previous order that the target cities were to be attacked with atomic bombs "as made ready". Unable to reach Marshall, Groves ordered on his own authority on August 13 that the core should not be shipped. Until August 9, Japan's war council still insisted on its four conditions for surrender. The full cabinet met on on August 9, and spent most of the day debating surrender. Anami conceded that victory was unlikely, but argued in favour of continuing the war nonetheless. The meeting ended at , with no decision having been reached. Kido informed him that the emperor had agreed to hold an imperial conference, and gave a strong indication that the emperor would consent to surrender on condition that kokutai be preserved. A second cabinet meeting was held at Only four ministers supported Anami's position of adhering to the four conditions, but since cabinet decisions had to be unanimous, no decision was reached before it ended at The meeting commenced at On August 12, the Emperor informed the imperial family of his decision to surrender. One of his uncles, Prince Asaka , then asked whether the war would be continued if the kokutai could not be preserved. Hirohito simply replied, "Of course. In his declaration, Hirohito referred to the atomic bombings and did not explicitly mention the Soviets as a factor for surrender:. Despite the best that has been done by every one—the gallant fighting of military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of Our servants of the State and the devoted service of Our one hundred million people, the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest. Moreover, the enemy now possesses a new and terrible weapon with the power to destroy many innocent lives and do incalculable damage. Should we continue to fight, not only would it result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization. Such being the case, how are we to save the millions of our subjects, or to atone ourselves before the hallowed spirits of our imperial ancestors? This is the reason why we have ordered the acceptance of the provisions of the joint declaration of the powers. In his "Rescript to the Soldiers and Sailors" delivered on August 17, however, he stressed the impact of the Soviet invasion on his decision to surrender. Wilfred Burchett was the first western journalist to visit Hiroshima after the bombing, arriving alone by train from Tokyo on September 2. Nakashima's and Burchett's reports were the first public reports to mention the effects of radiation and nuclear fallout — radiation burns and radiation poisoning. Laurence dismissed the reports on radiation sickness as Japanese efforts to undermine American morale, ignoring his own account published one week earlier. A member of the U. Strategic Bombing Survey , Lieutenant Daniel McGovern, used a film crew to document the effects of the bombings in early The documentary included images from hospitals showing the human effects of the bomb; it showed burned-out buildings and cars, and rows of skulls and bones on the ground. It was classified "secret" for the next 22 years. On October 24, , a U. All Nippon Eigasha's reels were confiscated by the American authorities, but they were requested by the Japanese government, and declassified. The book Hiroshima , written by Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey , which was originally published in article form in the popular magazine The New Yorker , [] on August 31, , is reported to have reached Tokyo in English by January , and the translated version was released in Japan in Hahn stated that he had not believed an atomic weapon "would be possible for another twenty years"; Werner Heisenberg did not believe the news at first. I think it is madness on their part", but Heisenberg replied, "One could equally well say 'That's the quickest way of ending the war'". Hahn was grateful that the German project had not succeeded in developing "such an inhumane weapon"; Karl Wirtz observed that even if it had, "we would have obliterated London but would still not have conquered the world, and then they would have dropped them on us". Hahn told the others, "Once I wanted to suggest that all uranium should be sunk to the bottom of the ocean". Cuthbert Thicknesse , the Dean of St Albans , prohibited using St Albans Abbey for a thanksgiving service for the war's end, calling the use of atomic weapons "an act of wholesale, indiscriminate massacre". An estimated 90, to , people in Hiroshima up to 39 percent of the population and 60, to 80, people in Nagasaki up to 32 percent of the population died in , [] though the number which died immediately as a result of exposure to the blast, heat, or due to radiation, is unknown. It was unappreciated at the time but the average radiation dose that will kill approximately 50 percent of adults, the LD50 , was approximately halved, that is, smaller doses were made more lethal, when the individual experienced concurrent blast or burn polytraumatic injuries. In the spring of , the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission ABCC was established in accordance with a presidential directive from Truman to the National Academy of Sciences — National Research Council to conduct investigations of the late effects of radiation among the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Cancers do not immediately emerge after exposure to radiation ; instead, radiation-induced cancer has a minimum latency period of some five years and above, and leukemia some two years and above, peaking around six to eight years later. Almost all cases of leukemia over the following 50 years were in people exposed to more than 1 Gy. Both of these statistics being derived from the observation of approximately half of the total survivors, strictly those who took part in the study. While during the preimplantation period, that is one to ten days following conception , intrauterine radiation exposure of "at least 0. Neel led the study which found that the overall number of birth defects was not significantly higher among the children of survivors who were pregnant at the time of the bombings. While The National Academy of Sciences raised the possibility that Neel's procedure did not filter the Kure population for possible radiation exposure which could bias the results. Crow examined Neel's research and confirmed that the number of birth defects was not significantly higher in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite the small sample size of 1, to 1, persons who came forth as prenatally exposed at the time of the bombings, that were both within a close proximity to the two hypocenters, to survive the in utero absorption of a substantial dose of radiation and then the malnourished post-attack environment, data from this cohort does support the increased risk of severe mental retardation SMR , that was observed in some 30 individuals, with SMR being a common outcome of the aforementioned microencephaly. While a lack of statistical data, with just 30 individuals out of 1,, prevents a definitive determination of a threshold point , the data collected suggests a threshold intrauterine or fetal dose for SMR, at the most radiosensitive period of cognitive development, when there is the largest number of undifferentiated neural cells 8 to 15 weeks post-conception to begin at a threshold dose of approximately "0. However either side of this radiosensitive age, none of the prenatally exposed to the bombings at an age less than 8 weeks, that is prior to synaptogenesis or at a gestational age more than 26 weeks "were observed to be mentally retarded", with the condition therefore being isolated to those solely of 8—26 weeks of age and who absorbed more than approximately "0. Examination of the prenatally exposed in terms of IQ performance and school records, determined the beginning of a statistically significant reduction in both, when exposed to greater than 0. However outside this period, at less than 8 weeks and greater than 26 after conception, "there is no evidence of a radiation-related effect on scholastic performance. The reporting of doses in terms of absorbed energy in units of grays and rads , rather than the use of the biologically significant, biologically weighted sievert in both the SMR and cognitive performance data, is typical. Many other investigations into cognitive outcomes, such as schizophrenia as a result of prenatal exposure, have been conducted with "no statistically significant linear relationship seen", there is a suggestion that in the most extremely exposed, those who survived within a kilometer or so of the hypocenters, a trend emerges akin to that seen in SMR, though the sample size is too small to determine with any significance. The Japanese government has recognized about , people as hibakusha. As of March 31, [update] , , were still alive, mostly in Japan an annual decrease of around 9, Updated annually on the anniversaries of the bombings, as of August [update] , the memorials record the names of more than , hibakusha ; , in Hiroshima and , in Nagasaki, up by 4, [] and 3, [] respectively from the previous year's figures of , [] and , If they discuss their background, Hibakusha and their children were and still are victims of fear based discrimination and exclusion when it comes to prospects of marriage or work [] due to public ignorance about the consequences of radiation sickness or that the low doses that the majority received were less than a routine diagnostic x-ray , much of the public however persist with the belief that the Hibakusha carry some hereditary or even contagious disease. Perhaps as many as people from Hiroshima sought refuge in Nagasaki. He was seriously burnt on his left side and spent the night in Hiroshima. He arrived at his home city of Nagasaki on August 8, the day before the bombing, and he was exposed to residual radiation while searching for his relatives. He was the first officially recognized survivor of both bombings. During the war, Japan brought as many as , Korean conscripts to Japan to work as forced labor. Most issues were eventually addressed in through lawsuits. Hiroshima was subsequently struck by Typhoon Ida on September 17, More than half the bridges were destroyed, and the roads and railroads were damaged, further devastating the city. It provided financial assistance for reconstruction, along with land donated that was previously owned by the national government and used for military purposes. Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, the closest surviving building to the location of the bomb's detonation, was designated the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Nagasaki was also rebuilt after the war, but was dramatically changed in the process. The pace of reconstruction was initially slow, and the first simple emergency dwellings were not provided until The focus on redevelopment was the replacement of war industries with foreign trade, shipbuilding and fishing. New structures were also raised as memorials, such as the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum , which was opened in the mids. The role of the bombings in Japan's surrender , and the ethical, legal, and military controversies surrounding the United States' justification for them have been the subject of scholarly and popular debate. Japanese historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa argued that the entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan "played a much greater role than the atomic bombs in inducing Japan to surrender because it dashed any hope that Japan could terminate the war through Moscow's mediation". Although not accepted by mainstream historians, this became the position in Japanese school history textbooks. Those who oppose the bombings give other reasons for their view, among them: a belief that atomic bombing is fundamentally immoral, that the bombings counted as war crimes , and that they constituted state terrorism. Like the way it began, the manner in which World War II ended cast a long shadow over international relations for decades to come. By June 30, , there were components for nine atomic bombs in the US arsenal, all Fat Man devices identical to the one used in the bombing of Nagasaki. There were also many improvements to their performance that had been suggested or recommended, but that had not been possible under the pressure of wartime development. Leahy had decried the use of the atomic bombs as adopting "an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages", [] but in October , he reported a military requirement for bombs. 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Japanese Navy submarines were left abandoned in a nearby bay. In Nagasaki, Mr. Matsumoto saw bonfires and assumed they were for cooking. Later, he realized that people were cremating their relatives because the bodies had putrefied. Photographers who covered the bombings might have sensed that the assignment was dangerous, but at the time, even medical experts did not fully understand the health risks of exposure to nuclear radiation. Decades later, Mr. He added that special thanks went to the US "without whose prodigious efforts the war in the East would still have many years to run". After the surrender of Japan, two days of national holiday were announced for celebrations in the UK, the US and Australia. The Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, seen below in August , was one of the few buildings to survive the bomb and has been preserved as a memorial. But critics have said that Japan was already on the brink of surrender. It was the first time an atomic bomb had ever been used in a war. However, Japan did not surrender. Reiko Hada was nine years old when the bomb exploded in Nagasaki. Hada witnessed some of the catastrophic injuries from the atomic bomb. People died one after another. Japan surrendered unconditionally on 14 August. All photographs subject to copyright. The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August | National Archives

The recorded death tolls are estimates, but it is thought that about , of Hiroshima's , population were killed in the blast, and that at least 74, people died in Nagasaki. The nuclear radiation released by the bombs caused thousands more people to die from radiation sickness in the weeks, months and years that followed. Those who survived the bombings are known as "hibakusha". Survivors faced a horrifying aftermath in the cities, including psychological trauma. The bombings brought about an abrupt end to the war in Asia, with Japan surrendering unconditionally to the Allies on 14 August Following the end of the fighting in Europe on 7 May , the Allies told Japan to surrender by 28 July, but the deadline passed without them doing so. An estimated 71, soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth were killed in the war against Japan, including more than 12, prisoners of war who died in Japanese captivity. The Hiroshima bomb, known as "Little Boy", contained the equivalent of between 12, and 15, tons of TNT and devastated an area of 13sq km 5sq miles. Three days later, the Americans dropped another atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki at Japanese time. In an interview with photojournalist Lee Karen Stow , she described her experience: "I made it to the entrance of my house, and I think I even took a step inside, then it happened all of a sudden. The colours were yellow, khaki and orange, all mixed together. In no time, everything went completely white. The next moment there was a loud roar. Then I blacked out. People with their eyes popped out, their hair dishevelled, almost all naked, badly burned with their skin hanging down. I was asked to give them water, so I found a chipped bowl and went to the nearby river and scooped water to let them drink. They didn't die like human beings. American leadership apparently thought so. A few days earlier, just 16 hours after the U. But even as Truman issued his statement, a second atomic attack was already in the works. According to an order drafted in late July by Lt. Leslie Groves of the U. Army Corps of Engineers, director of the Manhattan Project, the president had authorized the dropping of additional bombs on the Japanese cities of Kokura present-day Kitakyushu , Niigata and Nagasaki as soon as the weather permitted. Still, the effect was devastating: close to 40, people were killed instantly, and a third of the city was destroyed. The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Nagasaki seen from Koyagi-jima on August 9, According to Truman and others in his administration, the use of the atomic bomb was intended to cut the war in the Pacific short, avoiding a U. It Kick-Started the Cold War. The center area where the bomb struck in Nagasaki, photographed on September 13, Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Causes, Impact & Lives Lost - HISTORY

In fact, something far more sinister was in hand, as the Americans were telling Stalin at Potsdam. In physicists in the United States had learned of experiments in Germany demonstrating the possibility of nuclear fission and had understood that the potential energy might be released in an explosive weapon of unprecedented power. Eventually, the U. Office of Scientific Research and Development was created in June and given joint responsibility with the war department in the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb. After four years of intensive and ever-mounting research and development efforts, an atomic device was set off on July 16, , in a desert area near Alamogordo, New Mexico , generating an explosive power equivalent to that of more than 15, tons of TNT. Thus the atomic bomb was born. Truman, the new U. See Sidebar: The decision to use the atomic bomb. A second bomb, dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, killed between 35, and 40, people, injured a like number, and devastated 1. Many members of the Japanese government did not appreciate the power of the new Allied weapon until after the Nagasaki attack. Meanwhile, on August 8, the U. The combination of these developments tipped the scales within the government in favour of a group that had, since the spring, been advocating a negotiated peace. A few days earlier, just 16 hours after the U. But even as Truman issued his statement, a second atomic attack was already in the works. According to an order drafted in late July by Lt. Leslie Groves of the U. Army Corps of Engineers, director of the Manhattan Project, the president had authorized the dropping of additional bombs on the Japanese cities of Kokura present-day Kitakyushu , Niigata and Nagasaki as soon as the weather permitted. Still, the effect was devastating: close to 40, people were killed instantly, and a third of the city was destroyed. The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Nagasaki seen from Koyagi-jima on August 9, According to Truman and others in his administration, the use of the atomic bomb was intended to cut the war in the Pacific short, avoiding a U. It Kick-Started the Cold War. The center area where the bomb struck in Nagasaki, photographed on September 13, The two shacks in the foreground have been constructed from pieces of tin picked up in the ruins.

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Strategic Bombing Survey , Lieutenant Daniel McGovern, used a film crew to document the effects of the bombings in early The documentary included images from hospitals showing the human effects of the bomb; it showed burned-out buildings and cars, and rows of skulls and bones on the ground. It was classified "secret" for the next 22 years. On October 24, , a U. All Nippon Eigasha's reels were confiscated by the American authorities, but they were requested by the Japanese government, and declassified. The book Hiroshima , written by Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey , which was originally published in article form in the popular magazine The New Yorker , [] on August 31, , is reported to have reached Tokyo in English by January , and the translated version was released in Japan in Hahn stated that he had not believed an atomic weapon "would be possible for another twenty years"; Werner Heisenberg did not believe the news at first. I think it is madness on their part", but Heisenberg replied, "One could equally well say 'That's the quickest way of ending the war'". Hahn was grateful that the German project had not succeeded in developing "such an inhumane weapon"; Karl Wirtz observed that even if it had, "we would have obliterated London but would still not have conquered the world, and then they would have dropped them on us". Hahn told the others, "Once I wanted to suggest that all uranium should be sunk to the bottom of the ocean". Cuthbert Thicknesse , the Dean of St Albans , prohibited using St Albans Abbey for a thanksgiving service for the war's end, calling the use of atomic weapons "an act of wholesale, indiscriminate massacre". An estimated 90, to , people in Hiroshima up to 39 percent of the population and 60, to 80, people in Nagasaki up to 32 percent of the population died in , [] though the number which died immediately as a result of exposure to the blast, heat, or due to radiation, is unknown. It was unappreciated at the time but the average radiation dose that will kill approximately 50 percent of adults, the LD50 , was approximately halved, that is, smaller doses were made more lethal, when the individual experienced concurrent blast or burn polytraumatic injuries. In the spring of , the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission ABCC was established in accordance with a presidential directive from Truman to the National Academy of Sciences — National Research Council to conduct investigations of the late effects of radiation among the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Cancers do not immediately emerge after exposure to radiation ; instead, radiation-induced cancer has a minimum latency period of some five years and above, and leukemia some two years and above, peaking around six to eight years later. Almost all cases of leukemia over the following 50 years were in people exposed to more than 1 Gy. Both of these statistics being derived from the observation of approximately half of the total survivors, strictly those who took part in the study. While during the preimplantation period, that is one to ten days following conception , intrauterine radiation exposure of "at least 0. Neel led the study which found that the overall number of birth defects was not significantly higher among the children of survivors who were pregnant at the time of the bombings. While The National Academy of Sciences raised the possibility that Neel's procedure did not filter the Kure population for possible radiation exposure which could bias the results. Crow examined Neel's research and confirmed that the number of birth defects was not significantly higher in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite the small sample size of 1, to 1, persons who came forth as prenatally exposed at the time of the bombings, that were both within a close proximity to the two hypocenters, to survive the in utero absorption of a substantial dose of radiation and then the malnourished post-attack environment, data from this cohort does support the increased risk of severe mental retardation SMR , that was observed in some 30 individuals, with SMR being a common outcome of the aforementioned microencephaly. While a lack of statistical data, with just 30 individuals out of 1,, prevents a definitive determination of a threshold point , the data collected suggests a threshold intrauterine or fetal dose for SMR, at the most radiosensitive period of cognitive development, when there is the largest number of undifferentiated neural cells 8 to 15 weeks post-conception to begin at a threshold dose of approximately "0. However either side of this radiosensitive age, none of the prenatally exposed to the bombings at an age less than 8 weeks, that is prior to synaptogenesis or at a gestational age more than 26 weeks "were observed to be mentally retarded", with the condition therefore being isolated to those solely of 8—26 weeks of age and who absorbed more than approximately "0. Examination of the prenatally exposed in terms of IQ performance and school records, determined the beginning of a statistically significant reduction in both, when exposed to greater than 0. However outside this period, at less than 8 weeks and greater than 26 after conception, "there is no evidence of a radiation-related effect on scholastic performance. The reporting of doses in terms of absorbed energy in units of grays and rads , rather than the use of the biologically significant, biologically weighted sievert in both the SMR and cognitive performance data, is typical. Many other investigations into cognitive outcomes, such as schizophrenia as a result of prenatal exposure, have been conducted with "no statistically significant linear relationship seen", there is a suggestion that in the most extremely exposed, those who survived within a kilometer or so of the hypocenters, a trend emerges akin to that seen in SMR, though the sample size is too small to determine with any significance. The Japanese government has recognized about , people as hibakusha. As of March 31, [update] , , were still alive, mostly in Japan an annual decrease of around 9, Updated annually on the anniversaries of the bombings, as of August [update] , the memorials record the names of more than , hibakusha ; , in Hiroshima and , in Nagasaki, up by 4, [] and 3, [] respectively from the previous year's figures of , [] and , If they discuss their background, Hibakusha and their children were and still are victims of fear based discrimination and exclusion when it comes to prospects of marriage or work [] due to public ignorance about the consequences of radiation sickness or that the low doses that the majority received were less than a routine diagnostic x-ray , much of the public however persist with the belief that the Hibakusha carry some hereditary or even contagious disease. Perhaps as many as people from Hiroshima sought refuge in Nagasaki. He was seriously burnt on his left side and spent the night in Hiroshima. He arrived at his home city of Nagasaki on August 8, the day before the bombing, and he was exposed to residual radiation while searching for his relatives. He was the first officially recognized survivor of both bombings. During the war, Japan brought as many as , Korean conscripts to Japan to work as forced labor. Most issues were eventually addressed in through lawsuits. Hiroshima was subsequently struck by Typhoon Ida on September 17, More than half the bridges were destroyed, and the roads and railroads were damaged, further devastating the city. It provided financial assistance for reconstruction, along with land donated that was previously owned by the national government and used for military purposes. Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, the closest surviving building to the location of the bomb's detonation, was designated the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Nagasaki was also rebuilt after the war, but was dramatically changed in the process. The pace of reconstruction was initially slow, and the first simple emergency dwellings were not provided until The focus on redevelopment was the replacement of war industries with foreign trade, shipbuilding and fishing. New structures were also raised as memorials, such as the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum , which was opened in the mids. The role of the bombings in Japan's surrender , and the ethical, legal, and military controversies surrounding the United States' justification for them have been the subject of scholarly and popular debate. Japanese historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa argued that the entry of the Soviet Union into the war against Japan "played a much greater role than the atomic bombs in inducing Japan to surrender because it dashed any hope that Japan could terminate the war through Moscow's mediation". Although not accepted by mainstream historians, this became the position in Japanese school history textbooks. 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