The definitive scientific report on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - the only experience we have had to date with nuclear warfare. Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the first time brings together literally all that we know today about the short- and the long-range effects of what may well be the most portentous and terrifying event of the twentieth century. Translated into English from the Japanese by Eisei Ishikawa and David L. Swain. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: World War II, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Japan, Atomic Bomb, Military, X-rays, Scars, Hydrogen Bomb, Tokyo, Skin, Radioactivity, Radiation, Peace, Plutonium, Nuclear Test, World War Two, Korea, Medical Care, Infection, Fatalities, Hair, Bone Marrow, Allied Occupation, Victims, Eisei Ishikawa, David L. Swain).