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The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 unleashed a force as mysterious as it was deadly radioactivity In 1946 the United States government created the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission ABCC to serve as a permanent agency in Japan with the official mission of studying the medical effects of radiation on the survivors The next ten years saw the ABCC s most