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by dantone on November 19th, 2007

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Why are Hiroshima and Nagasaki habitable cities. Shouldn't they be polluted for centuries?

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  • by freeluncher on November 19th, 2007

    freeluncher

    Good question!!

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki are indeed "polluted" with a radioactive legacy from the atomic bombings of 1945. While this legacy is not as severe as say the fallout from a modern nuclear explosion, or from Chernobyl, it is still significant enough for the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to experience health complications to this very day. The survivors of the Japanese atomic bombings, those still suffering, are known as Hibakusha's.
    Arguably the whole world is radioactively polluted, making it less habitable for humans, thanks to the insane folly of those who advocate the possession and use of nuclear weaponry.

    http://prop1.org/prop1/radiated/forward.htm

    "Since the end of the 19th century, millions of people have become the victims of radioactivity. Czechoslovakian uranium miners were among the first victims, followed by many of the early experimental physicists like Irene Curie. In the early to mid twentieth century, hundreds of radium watch dial painters suffered horrible deaths. The death toll mounted with the advent of the nuclear age in the 1940s; The Congolese, Navajo and Dine (Saskatchewan Indians) uranium miners; the nuclear workers; the Pacific Islanders; "down winders" from nuclear test sites in Utah, Kazakstan, Australia and Algeria; the Atomic Veterans; the human radiation experiment victims; people living near nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons factories... by the millions they suffered and died. The survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Hibakusha) have a saying; "We Are All Hibakusha" and in a real sense, given global fallout and the ubiquitous presence of nuclear technology, we are indeed all radiation victims/survivors.

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  • by Jimmyp on October 19th, 2008

    Jimmyp

    The bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not "dirty" bombs and "only" about 1 per cent of the uranium material was fissionable. Plus, the bombs were relatively small compared to the ones in reserve nowadays. The radioactivity was very short lived. 2 weeks to a month was all it took for the radioactivity to dissipate. However, people who were in the city during those times were effected by the radiation. BTW, were are constantly receiving radiation from space and our environment at very low levels.

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  • by freacls on October 15th, 2008

    freacls

    i think their still are in a way but it is harmless so we can enter the places saftly and touch things their or even the lochals with out being effected ourselfs but its in their genes their more prone to cancer and cancer related illnes more than anyone else in the world is so Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still suffering even today though their scars are not visible to the eye they look normal but inwardly their suffering but thosands of tourists world wide flock to these to cities every year and come home fine

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  • by ChillWinterheart on November 19th, 2007

    ChillWinterheart

    correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what they dropped there are atom bombs, not nuclear bombs [not sure what the difference between the two are]. You're probably referring to the 'radioactive pollution' that we'd expect from a nuclear explosion.

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