BLAST INJURIES
No estimate of the number of deaths or early symptoms
due to blast pressure can be made. The pressures developed
on the ground under the explosions were not sufficient
to kill more than those people very near the center of
damage (within a few hundred feet at most). Very few cases
of ruptured ear drums were noted, and it is the general
feeling of the medical authorities that the direct blast effects
were not great. Many of the Japanese reports, which
are believed to be false, describe immediate effects such as
ruptured abdomens with protruding intestines and protruding
eyes, but no such results were actually traced to the
effect of air pressure alone.
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