Atomic Bombing (fat man and little boy)?

Question

Can anyone give me links to websites where they explain the biological effect of the atomic bombing on the victims in Hiroshima? Like for example explaining to me why do the skin melts away and why the victims develop cancer, hair loss, etc?

Answer 1

The skin melts because of the intense thermal heat caused by an atomic bomb. The cause of cancer and hair loss are from radiation poisoning.

Radiation poisoning, also called "radiation sickness", is a form of damage to organ tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing radiation. The term is generally used to refer to acute problems caused by a large dosage of radiation in a short period. Many of the symptoms of radiation poisoning occur as ionizing radiation interferes with cell division. This interference allows for treatment of cancer cells; such cells are among the fastest-dividing in the body, and may be destroyed by a radiation dose that adjacent normal cells are likely to survive

The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) was a commission established in the spring of 1948 in accordance with a presidential directive from Harry S. Truman to the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council to conduct investigations of the late effects of radiation among the atomic-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As it was erected purely for scientific research and study,not as a provider of medical care and also because it was heavily supported by the United States, the ABCC was generally mistrusted by most survivors and Japanese alike. It operated for nearly thirty years before its dissolution in 1975.

Answer 2

best sites are Russian sites about american weapons

www.scribd.com

Answer 3

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq5.html for the effects of nuclear bomb detonations.