ABSTRACT
In August, 1945, atom bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the former, some 240,000 were killed; in the latter, about 80,000. After the war those exposed to radiation continued to die; between 1951 and 1955, some 3,730. Now, sixteen years after the bombings, there are in Hiroshima alone more than 90,000 suffering from radiation illness. These people are dying at the rate of about 50 a year.
