[ RadSafe ] White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki(HBO Documentary)

[John Jacobus]

John,
In one sense, they are victims as of the atomic
bombing.  In a society like the Japanese, they were
and are stimatized.  In this country people who suffer
from post traumatic stress syndrom are frequently
sigmatized as "not getting over it."
 
--- "Hoyle, John" <john.hoyle at dhs.gov> wrote:

> Interesting to see how the "vaporized" numbers
> continue to climb each
> year.
> The numbers far exceed those from the U.S. Strategic
> Bombing Survey.  I
> have read that Japan counts as a "victim" each
> person living in those
> prefectures at the time of the bombing, who later
> dies, even at age 90
> from a heart attack, as an atomic victim. 
> Interestingly, no one ever
> mentions the casualties of the Tokyo fire bomb
> attacks which, have been
> reported, as exceeding the toll of Hiroshima and
> Nagasaki.  I wonder
> what the truth is?
> John Hoyle
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of Sandy Perle
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 10:26 PM
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] White Light,Black Rain: The
> Destruction of
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki(HBO Documentary)
> 
> The following documentary is on tonight ... HBO02
> ... which is in 25
> minutes, Pacific Daylight Savings Time. Perhaps it
> will be on again.
> 
> 
> White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki
> 
> On August 6th and 9th, 1945, two atomic bombs
> vaporized 210,000 people
> in
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those who survived are
> called
> "hibakusha"--people
> exposed to the bomb--and there are an estimated
> 200,000 living today.
> Today,
> with the threat of nuclear weapons of mass
> destruction frighteningly
> real-
> the world's arsenal capable of repeating the
> destruction at Hiroshima
> 400,000 times over, Oscar(r) award-winning filmmaker
> Steven Okazaki
> revisits
> the bombings and shares the stories of the only
> people to have survived
> a
> nuclear attack.
> 
>
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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