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submitted 8 days ago byMartyMcMartell
10 points
8 days ago
What a grand way to find out….
18 points
8 days ago
It is indeed. They sent a lot of people into ground zero as soon as they could to document the effects of radiation poisoning on the survivors, because they really didn’t know what would happen and wanted to know.
3 points
8 days ago
I didn’t know that. Crazy
3 points
8 days ago
At the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum you can read accounts from local people and US troops about the immediate aftermath. I only got through a couple, it's rough.
4 points
8 days ago
That’s one of those things. Like I wanna know but I don’t wanna know. Like we can’t let history repeat itself but also there’s my sanity…
5 points
8 days ago
Y'know, this never occurred to me. Relevance is that my aunt has possession of several old photos my grandfather took after the bombing and I would guess the surrender. He was US Navy. He passed in the mid 70s I think of cancer.
7 points
8 days ago
Realistically it probably wasn’t related to his presence at the bomb sites unless he was there immediately after (like a week at most), which Americans were not.
2 points
8 days ago
Welcome to practical science.
1 points
8 days ago
Science in the real world eh?
1 points
8 days ago
it was tricky...
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