A visitor from Singapore was surprised to see panels with English-language explanations at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, one of them stating: "The atomic bomb was not merely a bigger version of a conventional bomb."
"I had learned something about the atom bomb, but didn't know much about the effects of radiation," said John Tee Hui, 19, on visiting an exhibition called "The Atomic Bomb: Devastation by Unseen Radiation."
"Radiation goes through cells . . . at this stage chromosomes in the cell nucleus are broken . . . the damaged cells die or, if they survive, usually have genetic abnormalities," one illustrated panel says.
An estimated 140,000 people ultimately died in Hiroshima from the A-bombing on Aug. 6, 1945.