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Those physicians able to function did so heroically. They could not know that they would be the first medical experts to observe a new disease, the third effect, after heat and blast, of Little Boy. On Tuesday an official of the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima discovered that the X-ray plates stored in a basement vault that had survived the blast and a fire had all been exposed. The atomic bomb had spread radiation throughout central Hiroshima, with lingering, lethal effects on its survivors that would not be fully understood for years...
...spent 16 weeks in x-ray technical training.But by the time her course work was finished,there was no need for x-ray technicians...
...When you call the police, it is not an easysituation," Rando said yesterday. "They evacuatethe building, if they do it by the rules. You haveto go through a big hassle, it's not like theybring in a little machine and X-ray...
...wives, sons and daughters, hoping someone might have seen them alive. They faxed descriptions to hospitals. On Thursday, at least 300 people flooded First Christian Church bearing dental records, descriptions of birthmarks or other features that might help in the dreaded identification process. Forensic dentists, fingerprint squads and X-ray teams combined to examine the remains for clues, not only to the victims' identities, but also for bits of wire or shrapnel that might help lead investigators to the type of bomb used. Visual identification by relatives was a last resort...
...original Einstein satellite, which waslaunched in the '70s, contained CfA-engineeredinstruments allowing it to produce the firstfocused images of X-ray sources in space...