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Question
In Japan, some of the new born children are having congenital diseases. Why?
Solution
During the Second World War American, a bomber dropped nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the explosion of the atomic bomb to release the high energy dangerous radiation. In the explosion period, Japanese peoples are affected by radiation. This is the reason in Japan, some newborn children are having congenital diseases.
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