
“There are now a number of developments happening in the nuclear arms field, which are seeming to receive no public attention whatsoever. “I think that the sad thing is that that legacy has died somewhat,” said Dan Smith, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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Universal History Archive via Getty Images Survivors of the explosion in Hiroshima in August 1945.

She was dead less than a month later, Yonezawa said. His mother’s symptoms worsened - including bleeding gums and purple spots all over her skin. Both of us lost all our hair on the same day.” During the war, Japanese nuclear efforts were severely. By the end of 1945, the blast, heat, and radiation of the nuclear attacks had killed an estimated 74,000 in Nagasaki and 140,000 in Hiroshima. I ran to my mother and she had also lost her hair. In April 1941 the Imperial Army Air Force authorized research toward the development of an atomic bomb. I was so surprised, I touched my hair and it fell onto the sheets. Looking carefully, I noticed that it was covered with my hair.

“When I woke up, I saw my pillow had turned black. “I think the next day the war ended,” Yonezawa said. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki produced effects in Japan and around the world that changed the course of history. One elderly woman “held an eyeball with her hand to avoid it falling out completely.”

Once on the military truck that rescued him and his mother, he recalls seeing people with broken bones protruding from their flesh and blood flowing from their ears.
