Cancers caused by radiation from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago have killed or will kill under 1 per cent of those who initially survived the explosions and radiation exposure, according to a comprehensive new study.
About 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki are believed to have died by the end of 1945 from the effects of blast, heat and acute radiation poisoning. At an 80th anniversary ceremony in Nagasaki on Saturday, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said it was essential to pass down memories of the “brutal impact of the harm wrought by the atomic bombings”.
一項最新綜合研究顯示，80年前廣島和長崎核爆輻射的初期幸存者中，只有不到1%的人已經死于或將死于癌癥。據估計，到1945年底，廣島約有14萬人、長崎約有7.4萬人死于爆炸沖擊波、高溫和急性放射性中毒。上周六在長崎舉行的80周年紀念儀式上，日本首相石破茂(Shigeru Ishiba)表示，必須將“原子彈轟炸所造成的殘酷危害”銘記并傳承下去。