[ARC5] Enola Crewman Passes - off topic.

[gordon white]

I doubt someone who survived from 1945 until 2008 suffered cancer caused 
by the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb radiation. And, some cancers are more 
likely than others to be connected with radiation. (I wrote extensively 
on radiogenic cancers likely caused by fallout from the tests in Nevada 
in the 1950s, so know a bit about the subject)  Thyroid cancer is the 
most likely, but is seldom (2%) fatal. Those who walked around in the 
dust at Hiroshima a few days or weeks after the explosion were likely 
exposed to radiation, but the half-life of most radiation "daughter 
elements" is short. Most of the few long-lived radiation products went 
down-wind at high altitudes and were so widely dispersed as to pose 
relatively little hazard.  Of course, until the Windscale incident in 
England in 1957, even the experts like Oppenheimer, Teller, Groves, 
Bethe, etc. had no grasp of the hazards of atomic fallout.
- Gordon White