Young children were selected to come once or twice a year for a medical checkup. These Children were used to research the effects of radiation on the human body. There was a delayed reaction to the radiation that occurred ten years later. An estimate amount of thirty children that were in the womb at 15 to 16 weeks. About half of these children developed mental retardation and 19 that were 2100 meters developed leukemia before the age of nineteen. The scientist at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Committee studied the citizens of Hiroshima for years. There was no move to try and save the lives of these individuals. Many of the bomb victims were known as hibakusha, and they were judged for marrying the people that they loved. Either it was because their features were distorted from the burns on their body was disfigured from the blast. Some female was shunned away from marriage because they couldn’t have a “normal” child due the
Young children were selected to come once or twice a year for a medical checkup. These Children were used to research the effects of radiation on the human body. There was a delayed reaction to the radiation that occurred ten years later. An estimate amount of thirty children that were in the womb at 15 to 16 weeks. About half of these children developed mental retardation and 19 that were 2100 meters developed leukemia before the age of nineteen. The scientist at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Committee studied the citizens of Hiroshima for years. There was no move to try and save the lives of these individuals. Many of the bomb victims were known as hibakusha, and they were judged for marrying the people that they loved. Either it was because their features were distorted from the burns on their body was disfigured from the blast. Some female was shunned away from marriage because they couldn’t have a “normal” child due the