[ARC5] Enola Crewman Passes - off topic.

[J. Forster]

Agree.  The Enola Gay crew was no more exposed to radiation from the bomb
they dropped, with the possible exception of the X-Ray or Gamma "flash"
just after the instant of detonation, than anybody stateside. Any flash
was attenuated by their distance from Ground Zero by the inverse square
law. They, almost certainly, were never touched by any "fallout".

-John

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> 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
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