Re: Hiroshima casualties

"Cub Driver" <usenet.AT.danford.DOT.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What is the definitive study on Hiroshima deaths long-term?

Dan, if you can find it, there was an anti-war book written in the late
70s/early 80s that was an anthology of articles by various scientific
groups. AMBIO, the Swedish Academy of Sciences, contributed the section on
the H&N bombings. In that article, they stated that an *exact* accounting of
all long-term effects was impossible, due to refugee movement and the state
of the Japanese government - there were no surviving records fo who had
beent here and where they went, assuming they survived at all.
This chapter was written with as much factual data as AMBIO could gather
on the bombings and their aftermath - I found little exaggeration of the
effects as one might expect from anti-war activists, rather, this was
science addressing an event of political importance properly - by using
facts and careful conclusions supported by the facts. This was the best
chapter of the book for this reason. Regardless of agenda, the facts were
*not* misrepresented or distorted.

The Aftermath: The Human and Ecological Consequences of Nuclear War, New
York, Pantheon, 1983

V-man

Has anyone an opinion on the Japanese study, "Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings"?

Thanks!

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