Some Disturbed Facts You Never Knew About Oppenheimer And The Atomic Bomb
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Do you know around 140,000 people were killed in the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945?
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Do you know more than 74,000 people were killed just three days later in the Nagasaki bombing?
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Do you know the people didn't die but vaporized because of the intense heat from the bomb?
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The blinding light before the explosion was so intense that people called it pika-don (flash-bang)?
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Do you know the majority of survivors died within a year because of either cancer or other illness?
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Those who survived had a permanently disfigured body.
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Do you know injuries sustained by survivors were so bad that they were called "stages"?
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Because of the bombing, leukemia became the biggest killer among children?
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Only 10% of people within 1,600 feet of ground survived in both cities?
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Via National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
After the attack only 10% of doctors and nurses were there to provide first aid?
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The majority of people died because of severe pain and there were no doctors to treat them?
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Do you know there was a child who died after drowning in a pond at Los Alamos?
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Scientists who worked at Los Alamos also suffered from this project. Two of them died because of exposure to radiations.
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