The Effects of Inbreeding on Japanese Children by William J. Schull

Schull-a recent graduate in the growing science of human genetics and a former medic in an infantry division that had opposed the Japanese in the Pacific-set out from his home in Milwaukee to investigate, under the auspices of the newly created Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, genetic damage among children of survivors of the atomic bomb. Four years after these tragic events, William J. Three days later, above Nagasaki’s Urakami Cathedral, Fat Man released an atomic force equivalent to 22 kilotons of TNT and took a similar toll of that city’s inhabitants. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Little Boy dropped from the Enola Gay and exploded above Hiroshima’s Shima Hospital, killing over 100,000 people. They are also available to institutions in ten separate subject-area packages that reflect the entire spectrum of the Press’s catalog.

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The Effects of Inbreeding on Japanese Children by William J. Schull