A Japanese doctor told a nuclear weapons conference in Norway on Monday that atomic bombs are "horrendous" in nature, noting that those dropped by the U.S. on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II unleashed a trio of destructive forces that killed scores and decimated the cities.
Speaking at the conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, Masao Tomonaga, director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital, said people near ground zero were burned by 2,000 degree heat rays, hit by nearly 300 kph blast winds and exposed to massive radioactive gamma and neutron rays.
The two-day conference hosted by the Norwegian government opened Monday in Oslo with about 550 participants.