But there were problems to the unborn. In short, women who were pregnant near those bombs had higher rates of babies with anencephaly and mental retardation. They often did not survive into adulthood. However, babies who were conceived after the detonations did not have these malformations.
Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands is a good source if you want more info.
But there were problems to the unborn. In short, women who were pregnant near those bombs had higher rates of babies with anencephaly and mental retardation. They often did not survive into adulthood. However, babies who were conceived after the detonations did not have these malformations.
Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands is a good source if you want more info.
https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/cab/200708230012.html