People near the blast itself suffered burns. Warning: the following video might be disturbing to some viewers. Some people were struck by so many shards of broken glass that some of the glass had to be left inside their bodies. Harsh medical consequences such as severe burns and fractures and other bodily injuries, for example due to broken glass, were typical effects of the atomic bomb blast. These are the dual physical effects of an atomic bomb: first the blast and then the fire. She got me out of the ruins of our house, which burned to the ground ten to fifteen minutes after the initial blast. After the blast, my mother, who had been preparing food, searched for me in the rubble of what had been my bedroom, and found I was still sleeping in the bed. Fortunately I was not harmed, maybe because I was protected by the bed itself and the ceiling of the house did not hit me directly. That morning, I was sleeping on the second floor of our Japanese- style wooden house in a Japanese-style bed, when suddenly the blast from the atomic bomb crushed our house. What was your personal experience of the atomic bombing and its immediate aftermath?Īt the time of the bombing, I was two years and two months old. This interview was conducted in February 2015 in Nagasaki by Vincent Bernard, Editor-in-Chief of the Review, and Hitomi Homma, Communication Officer, ICRC Tokyo. He is now Chairman of the Nagasaki Global Citizen’s Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and directs a clinic attached to the Atomic Bomb Survivors Nursing Home. He was previously the Director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital, and researched the after-effects of atomic bomb radiation on human health. He graduated from Nagasaki University Medical School, specializing in internal medicine and haematology. Treating survivors: the effects of atomic bomb radiations on human healthĭr Masao Tomonaga survived the detonation of the second atomic bomb in Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. This shortened version remains faithful to their words. These testimonies were first published in the latest edition of the International Review of the Red Cross on The human cost of nuclear weapons. They now dig into the darkest reminiscences of their past in the hope that today’s world becomes free of the nuclear threat. Three of them chose to recount their story: Masao Tomonaga, Sadao Yamamoto and Yoshiro Yamawaki were children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the US nuclear attacks. Some 190,000 survivors of the nuclear attacks of World War II – the ‘hibakusha’ – still carry with them memories of death and destruction, radiation-induced diseases and social stigma that the bombs left in their wake. 71 years ago today, the second atomic bomb fell on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
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