The aftermath of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. AFP via Getty Images
A study has found that, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Japan, and Nagasaki, Japan, radiation-related deaths among survivors accounted for only 1 percent of total deaths.
Philip Thomas, professor of risk management at the University of Bristol, said that despite the slightly elevated risk the survivors faced as a result of their exposure to radiation in 1945, their lives will, on average, have been “decades longer than those of their forebears.”
