Secrets of the A-bomb survivors.

The article presents information related to the A-bomb survivors. The long-term effects of the bombs are still unclear, as doctors try to pin down how radiation causes disease. More than 150,000 people are thought to have died when the bombs fell on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and on Nagasaki three days later. Studies show that unborn children exposed to radiation grow up to be on average smaller and less intelligent than their peers, that the increase in their risk of leukaemia peaks after 10 years, and that radiation appears to hike the risk of other diseases. INSETS: TREATING THE VICTIMS;TWO BOMBS, SAME EFFECTS;CHERNOBYL CONTAMINATION WORSENS.