From: Jack Davis
Interesting..yes! I wonder if the photographer(s) survived the
radiation poisoning.
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Jack
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Probably.
The air bursts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki left little residual
radiation, and that would have decayed a lot by the time the survey
teams arrived.
http://www.dtra.mil/documents/rd/DNATR805512F.pdf
Upper limit dose estimates for the occupation in Hiroshima were 0.030
rem {30 millirem) for soldiers stationed at Hiroshima. This is based on
the "worst case" assumption that soldiers would have spent 8 hours per
day at Ground Zero, every day for their entire assigned tour.
On Nov 1, 1945, you would have had to stay within 100 yards of Ground
zero for 14-1/2 hours to receive a dose of one millirem; the equivalent
of a dental bite-wings or a chest x-ray for tuberculosis.
The photographers on the bomb survey were only there a few days, and
didn't stay at ground zero more than hours.
The bigger risk would be the photographers still in service after the
war being exposed during post-war atomic testing, particularly the
ground tests in Nevada and Utah.
Fallout map for CONUS testing:
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/yuccaflat/images/test_map.jpg
--- On Thu, 8/20/09, P. J. Alling wrote:
From: P. J. Alling <[email protected]> Subject: OT --
Hiroshima To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Date:
Thursday, August 20, 2009, 8:25 AM Well, apparently I have
nothing better to do today, than argue the finer points of Tort
law with William Robb, (a singularly pointless exercise since
neither of us are lawyers), and find somewhat interesting items
on the Internet.? So I hope someone finds this interesting.
http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=7517
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