Learn about acute radiation sickness, in this clip from Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail. August 6, 1945. A Uranium bomb is dropped on the city of Hiroshima. People closest to the blast were instantly vaporized in the tremendous heat. Those who were not killed in the initial blast and fire began to die in the coming weeks due to the radiation. Listen to Derek explain how Wilfred Burchett, was the first Western journalist to go into the city and document the suffering of 'acute radition sickness' for the world.