Hiroshima
70 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, at 8.15 am, he was dropped on Hiroshima the first atomic bomb to use in war history; a bombing that marked the end of World War II and ushered in the era of nuclear fear. The serious immediate effects (80,000 dead and nearly 40,000 wounded,) were added in the following years the effects of radiation, which led victims to share 250,000. Three days later, on August 9, a second atomic bomb destroyed well Nagasaki, forcing Japan, on the 15th, to surrender. The war is over but its consequences still last today.
Seventy years later, Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the most potent manifesto of the atrocity of war. These are two events of indescribable suffering when you consider that even today the Japanese hospitals treating the survivors.
The effects and consequences of the explosion were not all immediately clear. In addition to the rubble caused by the concussion of the explosion and the fire broke out due to the intense heat radiation were the main unknown. The explosion left residual radiation in the soil for a long period. Penetrating deep into the human body, these cells were damaging, tampered with the blood; they decreased function of generating blood, damaged lungs, liver and other organs.
Every war in addition to being a human and economic catastrophe is also an ecological disaster: animals, plants and forests destroyed, rivers and polluted air, land poisoned by pollutants bombs. The nuclear industry causes a specific pollution, characterized by contamination the atmosphere, soil and marine and continental waters due to radioactive elements.
Worldwide, there are still almost 16 thousand nuclear weapons, a real threat to humanity.
We must put a stop to a technology whose applications massive (except medical) are not able to be manage and control the current state of scientific knowledge.
