More Americans are receiving computed tomography (CT) scans than ever before, and while this technology can save lives, some ...

The target: Hiroshima. In Hiroshima the air raid ... disfigured and poisoned by radiation from the bomb. Three days later, another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan ...

A piano with a tragic story behind it has made it to the Hiroshima stage in a theatrical performance that honors the memories ...

Fukuchi was 14 when he was exposed to radiation from the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and was only about 1 km from the hypocenter. He moved to Tokyo after the war and operated a variety shop in ...

Hiroshima’s inhabitants came into contact with nuclear radiation in several ways: those close to the centre of the explosion received lethal doses for more than a minute after the atomic bomb ...

The effects of radiation at high doses and dose rates are reasonably well documented. A very large dose delivered to the whole body over a short time will result in the death of the exposed person ...

Shunkichi Kikuchi photographed a sister and brother who became bald from radiation ... of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, pointed to an image snapped by an atomic bomb survivor whose family ...

She was susceptible to getting sick, and others commented that it must be from A-bomb radiation. Whether in school or after leaving Hiroshima as part of group employment, she had no sense of ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration said development for a bomb 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima is ahead of schedule.

When the bomb exploded above Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m., the heat and radiation from the blast devastated the city, killing about 140,000 people by the end of the year. Many survivors went on to ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets ... from cancer and other forms of illness brought on by the radiation from the bomb. Huge numbers of buildings were completely destroyed or damaged.

It is a precautionary measure, in case Hiroshima is subjected to a fire bomb attack ... children are killed by the intense heat, blast and radiation. The crew of the Enola Gay watch the rising ...