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​   The hibakusha (explosion-affected) victims of Hiroshima dealt with many physical setbacks. Along with the effects explained in the introduction, the victims were faced with skin that would fall or peel off, ugly burn marks and scars all over their bodies, weakness, and even prints of the clothes they wore tattooed on their bodies. Body parts would become disfigured or melt off. Imagine your friend or family member going through this sort of pain. But even more shocking were the lasting long-term effects.  According to Atomic Archive, the long term effects included:
 * Blood disorders, like anemia
 * Cataracts
 * Hair loss
 * Leukemia
 * Keloids
 * Different types of cancers

For years to come, the hibakusha would be at higher risk for physical ailments then normal citizens. But even more intresting is the fact that survivors will not talk about what happened that day. When others asked what happened to them, they are silent. Chaitin tells about how the survivors often were afraid to be "Stigmatized by others and feared social rejection." Hibakusha also suffered from psychological problems. They would feel guilty to having have survived the attack and would not act behave normally in society. Some hibakusha could not trust anyone around them and feared that another attack of such devstation would happen to them again. In Peace Park of Hiroshima, there is a mass grave full of ashes of people who died during the attack. These people live lives of physical and mental ailments that could have been avoided.  __A Hibakusha__


 * Julia Chaitin and others. "Life After the Atomic Bomb." USA Today (Magazine) Vol. 135 No. 2742 March 2007: 20-23. //SIRS Researcher.// Web. 13 January 2010.