... buildings and the bodies of people. Those whom the immediate effects of the bomb didn't kill, were left injured and wishing they were dead. Most injuries resulted from the radioactive heat emitted by the detonated bomb, and other injuries were results of falling buildings or flying debris. Numerous people were reported to have suffered fire related burns; mostly "flash" burns, caused ... by the instantaneous radiation of heat and light, similar to excessive exposure to x-rays. Others were injured by the falling buildings, and the flying debris caused by the pressure of the waves of ener...

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... blast created a maximum pressure of 35 tons per square meter, and maximum wind speed of 440 meters per second all while traveling through the air at 20.1 kilometers a minute. The heat rays projected from the mushroom cloud reached areas within two kilometers of the hypocenter caused all combustible materials to spontaneously do so. All of those fires in addition to that ... radioactively contaminated, that was sucked into the mushroom cloud, and came down for months after the bombing (The Atomic Bomb). The bombing on Hiroshima also had dramatic anatomic effects. The heat rays from the i...

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... Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was a 12.5-kiloton atomic bomb, "an explosive blast equal to 12,500 tons of conventional high explosives (such as TNT) and caused high pressure waves, flying debris, extreme heat, and radioactive fallout." Examples of chemical weapons would include the nerve agent Sarin that was deployed by a religious cult in Japan in 1995 to kill and injure the general ... ...

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