Is Hiroshima-Nagasaki incident a radioactive disaster?

Question

i'm doin a project on Radioactive pollution. Cherynobyl is an accident.So wanted to know if atom bomb disasters can also be considered for it like nuclear bombs.

Answer 1

Going from memory, the number of people who died from radiation poisoning was several times the number who died in the blast and those who died from burns. You should be able to find the figures. I seem to recall 20,000 in the two cities initially and a total of over 100,000. Some of the 100,000 were people who were burned from heat of blast, but most of them also had radiation damage.
Well, I went and looked and I only off by 100% as the total is given as about 200,000 and a much higher percentage died before the end of the year than I estimated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

Answer 2

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were deliberate acts so they probably should not be considered "disasters". They should be considered extremely important events, as it marked the first two (and so far ONLY two) times that nuclear weapons were used in a war. Most people don't think of WWII as a "nuclear" war, but it was... at the end.

Answer 3

It was not a disaster but a means to an end for a war. The war if it had continued would have cost many more there lives then those two bombs did.

Answer 4

It wasnt an "incident," Dont even dare call it that. If you do you are dishonoring the thousands of innocent people who died as a result of thie explosions. I dont even think you should call it a radioactive disaster, even though it was. It was a weapon.

Thats like comparing a forest fire with a napalm bombing run.

Answer 5

They were man made disasters,but disasters they were.

Answer 6

I would think so.