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Ruslands Historiske Forening har udgivet en rapport fra Sovjetunionens ambassadør til Japan i kølvandet på bombningerne af Hiroshima og Nagasaki fra Arkivet for Russisk Udenrigspolitik i tid til 70 års jubilæet for angrebene. Rapporten var lavet en måned efter angrebene.

Følgende er nøglepunkterne fra rapporten:

Jernbaneterminalen for byen Hiroshima var så ødelagt at der ikke var noget ly at gemme sig under for regnen.

Byen var totalt udbrændt med blot 15-20 cementbygninger stående.

Adskillige dusin tusinder af mennesker krøb sammen i udgravninger i kanten af byen.

Folk som kom for at hjælpe ofrene i de første 5-10 dage døde.

En måned efter bombningen begyndte græsset at vokse og nye blade dukkede frem på de brændte træer.

Glasvinduerne i cementbygningen på politistationen som var stadig stående var blæst ud indadtil. Loftet svulmede opad.

Virkningszonen var 6-8 kilometer, hvor alle bygninger var ødelagte.

Ved 5-6 kilometer var det mest tagene, som var beskadigede.

Nogle områder var ikke berørt af strålerne, hvilket foreslår at energien var slynget ujævnt udad af chokbølgerne. Nogle mennesker som var tæt på de sårede pådrog sig ingen forbrændinger. Dette var i områder der var i en betydelig afstand fra nedslagsområdet.

Alt levende var destrueret i en radius af en kilometer.

Lyden og glimtet var hørt og set 50 kilometer væk.

En person rapporterede at have set et lysglimt og at have mærket en varm strøm på sin kind og en sensation af nåle.

Mange mennesker havde blot kvæstelser fra ituslået glas.

Forbrændinger var fortrinsvis på ansigtet, arme og ben.

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A doctor reported seeing three bombs dropped on parachutes, two of which did not explode and were collected by the military. The doctor experienced diarrhea after drinking the water. Other rescuers got sick after 36 hours. The doctor said that in those affected the white blood cell count reduced from 8000 per cubic centimeter to 3,000, 1,000 and even 300, which causes bleeding from nose, throat, eyes, and from the uterus in females. The injured die after 3-4 days.

The injured, who are evacuated heal faster. Those who drank or rinsed with water in the impact area died thereafter.

After a month it was considered safe to stay in the impact zone, however it was still not conclusive.

According to the doctor, rubber clothing offered protection against uranium, as well as any material which is a conductor of electricity.

A girl who visited the area a few days after the blast got sick in 1-2 weeks and died 3 days after.

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Nagasaki is divided into two sections by a mountain. The section sheltered from the blast by a mountain had much less destruction.

Japanese driver in Nagasaki said no rescue work was done on the day of the bombing, because the city was engulfed in fire.

Nagasaki bomb was dropped over a university hospital in Urakami district (near a Mitsubishi plant), all the patients and the staff of the hospital died.

The driver said, some children who were up on the trees [playing?] survived, but those on the ground died.

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Most people in Hiroshima said the bomb was dropped on a parachute and detonated 500-600 feet above the ground.

The head of the sanitary service of the 5th American fleet, commander Willkatts said that no parachutes were used in the dropping of the bombs. He also said no bomb could fall without detonating.

He said after the bombing the zone of impact is safe and the Japanese are exaggerating the effects of a nuclear bomb.

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(The pictures above are from the online sources, and not from the report)