often, skin that had been blistered by the heat was pollard -- was followed -- this young victim has hair falling out. about four weeks or so after, people who thought they had escaped the blast and were not damaged as the first person with the skin stars were, the radiation was poisoning them. the japanese suffered from fatigue, and vomiting, diarrhea, their blood count was very low. , their hair began to fall out and they did not know what it was. they call it disease x. they did not know how to treat it. it was undiagnosed. the first american to visit from chicago went to the hospitals. the doctors said they had medication, but they did not know what the disease was or how to treat them. about half of the people died instantly and the next have died within four to six weeks of acute radiation poisoning. host: philadelphia, pennsylvania, republican line. john. caller: truman faced a terrible dilemma. obama this is a nuclear iran. do we bomb them with conventional bombs? who knows whether we would be saving people in israel or saudi arabia because iran could go ahead in a fanatical