ter of a million people died oshima and Nagasaki L 1945. Another 580,000 injured In the *The energy give off from the was roughly is: 50 per cent blast, 35 per Aimal radiation, and 15 ionising radiation. The reached temperatures of million degrees CenIp to 1.2 kilometres from the of the explosion, people shrivelled and roasted. a 4 kilometres from the centhermal radiation was es greater than that from the and: exposed human skin badly burned.
As the moisture condensed particles, a 'black rain' of ash and dust fell over the A shock wave swept streets, smashing thing in its path.
called the say that they saw I Even those who lived and cred no physical been haunted ever since by umare of seeing peoples' their eyes Everything lay in ruins. The hospitals were turned into rubble. Fire stations, transport and local administra. tion simply disappeared. People lay buried beneath piles They lay pavements, in the streets, burned and bleeding, and there was no one to help.
The enormity For countless vivors there was to be a future of illness, disease, and disorder. Keloids - an awful alsiguration SKIn leukemia, cancer of the lung, the breast, and the thyroid, are just some of the after-effects of the was equivalent to 22 kilotons of TNT.
want to use them.
two bombs.
By March 1977 the number of people granted public status totalled 366,532. Over 30 years after the bombs dropped these people were still suffering. of Figures such as 250,000 dead, the injured, classified as victims are almost impossible to comprehend. They are unreal. stunned What is real is the murderous nature of imperialism. To defend its power it was quite prepared to mental incinerate and mutilate hundreds of thousands of human beings. Hitler's gas Truman's atom bomb show that capitalism can lead us nowhere but along the path to barbarism. King at llam LONDON Festival 10 August. 366,523 still 1.30pm Mancunian Peter's Frank CND.
supporters are asked to loin the Socialist assemble at 9.30am that morning in demonstraton sion Square. marching vla Hawkmes to rork to joll Dominican Day, petitioners will meet at St. Martin's in the Bull duct Augh or stan Hackney's Second Anti-Nuclear will take place in Clissold Park. Stoke Newington on Sunday I won't 'hatcher ¿ STOP • CRUISE MISSILES No replacement for Polaris!
No Cruise Missiles!
No more Hiroshimas!
DEMONSTRATION Saturday 9 August way, Oxford Road, Manchester 1. Rally 3pm, St Speakers include Allaun MP. Organised t (All North West Socialist Challenge Hands off tran and the Caribbean.
JOHN Corrie's anti-abortion Bill was defeated last arch after a massive cam-
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Thousands of killer-tons THE Hiroshima bomb was equivalent to 12 kilotons of TNT and the one dropped on Nagasaki Today the destructive power of nuclear weapons is many hundred times greater. We can- not afford to allow the ruling class in Britain or the United States the right to decide when they