The curse of Enola Gay
"SHORTLY AFTER THE BOMB exploded in midair, sickness appeared, with prostration, high fever, vomiting and diarrhoea. Those who were directly hit died almost instantly, some charred beyond recognition. People were strewed all over the place, crying for help but in vain. Many more died before...
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1995
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/33791/1/DZUL464.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/33791/ |
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| Summary: | "SHORTLY AFTER THE BOMB exploded in midair,
sickness appeared, with prostration, high fever, vomiting and
diarrhoea. Those who were directly hit died almost instantly, some charred beyond recognition. People were
strewed all over the place, crying for help but in vain. Many more died before any meaningful help can be
given." These were the words of Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, the only Malaysian to experience and survive the
Atomic Bomb attack in Hiroshima.
It was on 6 August 1945 at precisely 8.15 am, when it happened, minutes after the B29
bomber Enola
Gay flew over Hiroshima. The history of mankind was once again scarred by the horror of war. If the timehonoured
code against the use of toxic chemicals was breached during the First World War, the second World
War witnessed the violation of another timehonoured
tradition. It marked the beginning of the nuclear era.
For the first time, clouds of radioactive filth engulfed an entire city, razing it to the ground. Likened to a black
rain, the effects of the firstever
atomic bomb, innocently nicknamed The Little Boy, indiscriminately killed at
least 100, 000 people and maimed and shocked thousands of other unsuspecting people of Hiroshima. Indeed
the whole world reacted in disbelief. |
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