Re: Survivors

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

In a sense, isn't everyone in the world who was alive in 1945, a survivor of

the atomic bombing. Radioactive fallout was spread essentially everywhere. I

am curious as to how close to Hiroshima or Nagasaki one had to be at the

time in order to be officially  considered a "survivor"?



> An estimated 5,000 atomic bomb survivors live abroad without any

> relief, with an estimated 2,200 in South Korea, 900 in North Korea,

> 1,000 in the United States and 180 in South America, according to the

> health ministry.

>

> The ministry began a new relief program for overseas A-bomb survivors

> in June under which it shoulders their travel expenses for visits to

> Japan for medical treatment.





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