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I had a history teacher who was a fanatic about Hiroshima and he had a bunch of books and original photgraphs taken right after people started getting to the city to assess the damage. I don't think in any of those pics I ever saw anyone wearing a rad suit. I don't think they really knew enough about the radiation yet to know they had to protect themselves.
Here are the casualty #'s from the Dept. Of Energy
Instantly Killed:
70,000
total death toll by December 1945:
140,000
total death toll by 1950:
200,000
My grandfather was an Army cook on Tinian and served the crew of the Enola Gay their meal before they took off. He had to prepare the food under guard and serve it to them personally along with a few other cooks. He said that everyone who came in contact with them that morning knew that something big was going to happen, but they had no idea just how big it would really be.
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