[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by yerself

Have we any nuclear physicists on here. Two of the girls who survived the Hiroshima bomb were said to have been within 250 metres of the epicentre of the explosion yet they have lived into their eighties. So just how dangerous is exposure to radioactivity?

I got the impression that it was from drinking the radioactive rain that most people became affected by the radioactivity.

Whichever way you look at it war is horrible but in some cases necessary. Given that the Japanese would probably have fought to the death each and every one then could there have possibly been any other way than the one which was chosen? I doubt it. We were just talking this evening and mentioned the Japanese soldiers still fighting the war on small islands 20 or 30 years down the line because nobody had told them it was over. They wouldn't have given in any other way. Does that mean that I can celebrate the bombings? I'm afraid not. All that I can feel is the hope that it never has to happen ever again - anywhere. The frightening thing is that we are now capable of far worse than that.