Hiroshima- August 5,1945

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Hiroshima- August 5,1945
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Hiroshima- August 6, 1945
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Physical Destruction
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Where to start?

• In the early hours, thousands fled the city.
  Then they came back- to rescue the injured,
  collect corpses, and restore city functions
• All were exposed to residual radiation.
• But, how do you identify the age or gender of a
  hairless, swollen, and discolored corpse?
• Or worse, the imprints of human
• beings vaporized by the heat of
• the blast.

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Radiation Effects
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What do you do with the survivors?
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What about the lasting effects?
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J. Robert Oppenheimer

• The lead scientist of the Manhattan Project upon
  seeing the fireball after successfully testing
  the first atomic bomb
• I am become death,
• the destroyer of worlds.- Bhagavad Gita