The Military suffered too!
The word "RADIOACTIVITY"was used lightly on the ship of the military. So since they knew nothing about this"RADIOACTIVITY" after the bombing the military bathed in the water, washed their clothes in the sea and soon the "RADIOACTIVITY"inflicted the military. Many died, many had this spread throughout their bodies. There was severe swelling and pain.
Here Comes The Boom!
"In 1954 the South Pacific atoll was rocked by a 15 megatonne hydrogen bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the explosives dropped on Hiroshima.The explosion shook islands more than 100 miles away, generated a wave of heat measuring 99,000ºF and spread mist-like radioactive fallout as far as Japan and Australia." Nick Squires stated on his article. For more informationhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3339485/Marine-life-flourishes-at-Bikini-Atoll-test-site.html
"We were on the deck. No glasses. You could almost see through your fingers. I mean, it almost looked like an X-ray, it seemed to me like. Maybe it was just due to the fact that I parted my fingers like this. But I could almost see the bones in my hand," Said Jack Connolly a member of the Military during this time
