turn, because of the readings found.”
HBO’s hit docudrama Chernobyl first showed the world the harrowing effects of radiation poisoning. While thousands living in close proximity to the nuclear plant died agonisingly painful deaths as their blood vessels haemorrhaged and their skin melted from their bodies, hundreds were left with horrific side effects from cancers to miscarriages.
After the Castle Bravo bomb – 1,000 times more powerful than either of the bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima or Nagasaki – was detonated on the morning of March 1, 1954, islanders more than 160 km away mistook fallout for snow. It caused skin burns, hair loss, nausea and eventually cancer in many who were exposed.