The document summarizes the effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. It provides data on the numbers killed and injured at different distances from the bomb explosions, as well as population figures. It then explains the main types of damage caused by a nuclear explosion - the blast shock wave, direct nuclear radiation, thermal radiation, and radioactive fallout. It notes the wind speeds and building damage from shock waves, the penetrating ability of neutrons and gamma rays, the burns caused by thermal radiation at different distances, and how fallout enters the atmosphere and environment.