What differs between an atomic bomb and an ordinary bomb is that the former emits radioactive rays. The invisible radioactive rays affect human bodies with a special severity and damage the inside of cells.
Several harmful effects of radiation in the early stage would appear as bleeding under the skin, diarrhea, and hair loss, but 10 years after the atomic bombing they would cause atomic bomb cataracts, leukemia, stomach cancer or large bowel cancer.
It is unpredictable what kind of disease will occur and when. Atomic bomb victims are always held in fear of suffering from cancer or leukemia at some time in the future. It can be said that the exact effects of radiation to humans and the environment still remain scientifically unknown, and the agonies which began that summer will never disappear from their lives.
