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Published online 31 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030728-8
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US-Joint Reassessment of Atomic Bomb Radiation Dosimetry in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (DS86)
Nickel confirms record of A-bomb risk 58 years ago.
Scientists have deciphered a faint message in metals that bore silent witness to the first atomic bomb explosion, which rocked the Japanese city of Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War.
This is the first reassessment of the radiation victims received since a 1980s study1cast doubt on the post-war dosage estimates.
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