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Nuclear physics

Nuclear physics

Burned from the inside out

28 Jan 2016
Taken from the January 2016 issue of Physics World

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Susan Southard
2015 Souvenir Press/Viking £20.00/$28.95hb 416pp

Painting showing dozens of injured and bandaged people gathered outside a building with a traditional Japanese tiled roof, some lying down, some walking, as a team of medics treat a severely injured person in the background
On the ground Matsuzoe Hiroshi painted this eyewitness record of the Nameshi Emergency Aid Station on 9 August 1945. (Courtesy: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum)
In 1950 US president Harry S Truman was asked about the possible use of an atomic weapon in the Kore

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