TOKYO, Oct 13 — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors who are advocating for “a world free of nuclear...
Hadi says Opposition and govt can fight for the same cause, refusal to recognise state of Israel a ‘victory for whole of Malaysia’A file photo dated September 1945 of the remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima , Japan. — AFP picTOKYO, Oct 13 — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo , a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors who are advocating for “a world free of nuclear weapons”.
When the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the first thing people noticed was an “intense ball of fire”, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross . It has been estimated that burn- and fire-related casualties accounted for more than half of the immediate deaths in Hiroshima. Acute radiation symptoms include vomiting, headaches, nausea, diarrhoea, haemorrhaging and hair loss, with radiation sickness fatal for many within a few weeks or months.
But those calculations meant little to survivors, many of whom battled decades of physical and psychological trauma, as well as the stigma that sometimes came with being a hibakusha.
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