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Hiroshima day 2025: The matter of 1954 is when a havoc broke from the sky that not only set the Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan, but also gave pain and disease to many generations to come. The atomic bomb named “Little Boy” dropped by the US had changed everything in just a few seconds. The atomic bomb blast is not like a common explosion. Radiation emanating with it means that radiation affects the human body, which does not leave for years. That is why the attack on Hiroshima was not just one day accident, it was the beginning of a slow death.
We have all read in books that after the bomb fell, everything was burnt to ashes in Hiroshima. But very few people know that the real devastation happened due to the hidden radiation in that ashes. People were alive with a burnt body, but their limbs were slowly melting from inside. Many saw immediate effect and many years later. The question is what happens after the nuclear attack, which makes diseases so dangerous?
Disease after nuclear attack
Dr. Subhash Giri in the Department of Medicine at RML Hospital says that radiation is the first effect on the body after the atomic attack. This radiation damages DNA. That is, our cells start to break. outcome? Blood diseases like leukemia, failure of cancer and immune system.
- This radiation became the reason for the death of thousands of people within a few months of the bomb fall. Five to six years after the nuclear attack, leukemia increased in people. After about a decade, people began to suffer from thyroid, breasts, lungs and other cancer, which was much higher than the normal rate.
- People affected by nuclear attack started getting sick not only physical but also mentally. The fear of diseases caused by radiation started increasing among these people. Psychiatrists detected diseases such as neurotic symptoms, normal fatigue, forgetting disease and autonomic nerve umblance with lack of concentration.
People are getting sick from generation to generation
- Due to radiation, pregnant women saw serious diseases related to birth. Small children started taking birth with problems like brain damage, heart failure and weakness of muscles. In many cases, children were born disabled.
- Hearing this, it seems that perhaps the situation may have improved in a few years. But not. Even after 10 to 15 years of Hiroshima attack, cancer cases continued to grow. People who came in contact with radiation at that time, their future generations also continued to get sick. That is, the effect was not limited to the same generation only.
Villages are vacant due to radiation
Another surprising thing is that till years after the nuclear attack, the presence of radiation in soil, water and air remained. That is, even if someone starts living in that city, there is a danger of getting sick. Even today, there are such survivors in Japan who are carrying the pain of this attack in their body and mind.
Is it possible to prevent this?
Medical examination and treatment is the most important step to avoid the effect of radiation. There is a special testing to measure the level of radiation in the body. Apart from this, Iodine Tablets and certain medicines are given which help in removing radioactive elements from the body.
Symptoms when exposed to radiation
There may be signs of frequent fatigue, burning sensation or blisters, vomiting, hair loss, or repeated fever of radiation exposure. Apart from this, it is necessary to get treatment as soon as the symptoms are seen.
By celebrating Hiroshima Day on August 6, we do not remember only those who were killed in that attack, but also reminds us how the common people paid the price of human greed and war. There is a need to take lessons from this dangerous face of science. So that no city will ever become Hiroshima.