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In April 1947, nearly two years after the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a U.S. mission of physicians who examined the survivors reported on the "first guinea pigs" of atomic warfare. U.S. and Japanese doctors found that mysterious scars continued months after victims' burns from the atomic bombs' heat and ultraviolet radiation healed. The doctors feared these ugly keloid scars might foretell cancer. Sterility was found in blast victims who had been up to three miles from the target center. One-third of the men were sterile, and fully two-thirds of the women suffered menstrual disturbances and miscarriages. The doctors received reports of malformed babies and feared for the generations yet to come. Atomic radiation was known to change genetic material. The report said, "There is good reason to believe that reproductive disturbances, malignancies of...
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