Radiation Linked to Just 1 Percent of Deaths Among Hiroshima and Nagasaki Survivors, Study Finds

A study has found that, 80 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, radiation-related deaths among survivors accounted for only 1 percent of the total.

Philip Thomas, professor of risk management at Bristol University, said that despite the slightly elevated risk the survivors faced as a result of their exposure to radiation in 1945, their lives will, on average, have been “decades longer than those of their forebears.”