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The detonation
left behind per-
manent traces.

The nuclear accident that occurred in the Chernobyl reactor in Russia in 1986 had
permanent effects on human beings and all other animate things. Scientists say
these effects will last another 30-40 years. Measures to prevent nuclear leaks have
not been helpful. A study is underway for the elimination of the harmful effects of
radiation.

You do not engage in any matter or recite any of the Qur'an or do any
action without Our witnessing you while you are occupied with it.
Not even the smallest speck eludes your Lord, either on earth or in
heaven. Nor is there anything smaller than that, or larger, which is
not in a Clear Book. (Surah Yunus: 61)

Effects of the Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The atomic bombs dropped in the final year of World War II have reve-
aled to the whole world the tremendous power hidden in the atom. Both
bombs caused hundreds of thousands of people to lose their lives and inflic-
ted lifelong physical damage on many of the survivors.
Although the impact of the explosion depends on the power of the
bomb and various environmental conditions, let us see, based on the exam-
ple of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, how the enormous power inside the atom,
causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in a few seconds, is
released second by second:
- The moment of explosion…
Let us assume that an atomic bomb explodes at an altitude of 2,000 m as
it did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The neutrons bombarding the uranium
and which split the first atoms into fragments creates chain reactions within
the mass as mentioned before. In other words, the neutrons thrown out from
the first fragmented nuclei hit other nuclei and split these new nuclei as well.
Thus, all nuclei are rapidly fragmented in a chain reaction and the explosion

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