The Atom Bomb was NOT dropped on Iwo Jima.
It was dropped on Hiroshima and on Nagasaki.
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2007-02-02 10:03:42
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answered by ICG 5
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Considering the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Not Iwo Jima) I'd have to say the question is moot.
2007-02-02 10:04:53
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answered by Dennis W 2
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Rates of cancer and birth defects remained high for about 10 years after the event. Since then, a few hundred additional deaths are believed to be attributable to the bombing, mostly among survivors.
Basically after the mid 50s, the lingering contamination was pretty much to the point of not being worth worrying about.
And yes, people still live there. About a million of them.
Edit: I'll be damned, there are studies suggesting it was still higher later on.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7917541&dopt=Abstract
I wonder if "gastric cancers" suggests lingering contamination in the food supply. OTOH, the fact that some of the increases came during post-war industrialization, and they don't compare the rates to the rest of Japan, leaves open the possibility that it wasn't the bomb that caused this. Also, stomach cancer is, AFAIK, the most common cancer in Japan, not just in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2007-02-03 01:47:25
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answered by Anonymous
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There was no atom bomb dropped on Iow Jima. There were bomb dropped on two cities in Japan proper. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Life is carried on there today as in the remainder of Japan.
2007-02-02 10:15:48
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answered by DelK 7
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki are cosidered to be two of the major cities (not as huge as Tokyo) in Japan.
Yes people live there and reproduce.
As for Iwo Jima, I heard no body lives there and is a restricted area. Something to do with not disturbing all the souls that died there.
2007-02-02 11:37:46
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answered by Anonymous
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It has always made me wonder.
Even though they have been nuked, life goes on completely normally as far as I have seen in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
You'd never know they were nuked a mere 60 years ago.
Kind of makes me a bit skeptical about the claims that nuclear bombs will make cities uninhabitbale for 10,000 years, when I've taken vacations several times in such cities. The Earth is stronger than is fashionable to think.
The Earth will always survive whatever we throw at it. Environmentalism is really just self interest for humans. Humans may not survive environmental abuses, but the Earth does.
2007-02-02 23:30:26
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answered by Ken O 3
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Yes, for a number of years there were small increases in soft tissue cancers. Today, the numbers are in the normal error range of statistics.
By the way, Japan had plans to drop a "dirty bomb" on San Francisco in mid-August 1945, using nuclear reactor waste from local experimental reactors; the real atomic bombs ended that project. Earlier, a German submarine surrendered to the U.S. Navy as the war ended in Europe; it had been carrying two Japanese scientists and several tons of nuclear reactor waste for the "dirty bomb" project.
IT IS NOT DISINFORMATION that the bombs ended the war; the nuclear bombs saved hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives - as well as Allied ones - by not continuing a ground and aerial war on Japanese territory. Proof of Japanese military desire to continue the war (rather than surrender, as revisionists would have you believe) was the fact that the Emperor's surrender phonograph discs were taken by the military who did not want the nation to surrender; they were protected and broadcast by several very brave men.
Finally, there is an interesting category of atomic bomb survivors. There were several hundred people (including Korean slave laborers) who moved from Hiroshima to Nagasaki after the first bombing, and were actually bombed TWICE. Interestingly, Hiroshima had a large Christian population.
2007-02-04 16:11:49
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answered by Anonymous
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Fire bomb? Are you serious? That is worst than dropping the atomic bomb. The firebombing done on Japan in a few months already killed almost a million Japanese and you are asking to kill more? Both the atomic bombs did not even killed close to that number. And in defense to the Japanese, do you know anything about our ethics? Japanese are tough people by heart and don't believe in terms like surrender. Ever heard of kamikaze or seppuku or even what happen at Okinawa? We would have fought to the death and even do stuff like force our people (innocent women and children) to die along with us in order to retain our honor.
2016-05-24 06:17:51
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answered by Anonymous
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not really. I have been to Hiroshima. It is a very large city. I heard it was the 3 or 4th largest in japan. The people there arent mutated or any thing. Now there was a higher rate of cancer there. but that could be due to a number of things. If you go there you would never know what had happend. I have been to ground zero. they have a really nice muesem there and monuments to honor the victims of the bombing. Every year the mayor of Hiro sends letters to leaders of the world begging them to get rid of nuclear weapons. sounds like a good idea to me.
2007-02-03 05:01:57
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answered by turkey 6
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These are important port cities that have been rebuilt...In Hiroshima over 135,000 people were murdered by that bomb. In Nagasaki over 74,000. And most of them were innocent women, children, and elderly. Also a few Americans were killed. Many Japanese suffered from "A bomb disease" afterwards. Also known as Leukemia. Our history books tell us the bombs were dropped to end the war. But this is disinformation. Japan had been trying to surrender without "losing face", but the American government would'nt allow that. The bombs were dropped to scare the Nazis and the Russians. The Nazis were close to having their own bomb made. And Russia had their own plans to invade Japan. Many Japanese suffered a slow and painful death.
2007-02-03 08:31:31
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answered by Vinegar Taster 7
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