Description:
This site, created on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the explosion of an atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945, describes and often graphs the "medical effects of the atomic bombing -- particularly the late effects of exposure to radiation." Topics include acute effects (such as burns and liver damage), and late effects (such as leukemia). In English and Japanese. From the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University. |