HEMATOLOGIC STUDIES IN HIROSHIMA AND A CONTROL CITY TWO YEARS AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMBING

Abstract
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE ATOMIC bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in the August 1945, subjected large numbers of persons to significant amounts of radiation. The immediate, acute effects of the exposure have been evaluated by a group of United States Army and Navy and Japanese civilian investigators, usually referred to as the Joint Commission.1 Their observations did much to confirm and