Survivors reveal the horrors of living through atomic bombs in Japan
PEOPLE screaming for help with their skin hanging off or desperately trying to push their exposed internal organs back into their bodies.But even when Germany surrendered to the Allies in May 1945, the Japanese continued their fight.I disowned brother over rape charge - I’m haunted by guilt now he’s clearedthree days later. Many were killed instantly, but others suffered a slow and agonising death from the effects of radiation poisoning.
“So I stayed still in the river, with the overgrown aquatic plants. Around an hour passed, and the visibility increased. And then, I saw a woman in her twenties walking towards me. “I was under the desk so I could move. I looked around and in every direction I could see hands and legs trapped and I crawled from the classroom to the corridor and my friends were saying, 'help me'. I left them.”“The rain that came was like mud, the black rain,” she says.
“And then a girl, all alone, probably the same age as me, she was also melting from burns, her face too. But her eyes were wide open. I turned back to watch the girl. She collapsed. “'I thought, what are those things that look like seaweed?' It was the skin from their legs which had peeled off and collected around their ankles.
The research, which took place across 30 different sites in the UK, USA and Canada, produced two different types of bombs - a gun-type fission weapon and a more complex implosion-type nuclear weapon. In 1952 Japan regained independence - and the press were free to report what the atomic bomb had done to people.But ignorance meant the survivors were soon tarnished, with some people believing they had infectious diseases and therefore shunned them.
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