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. 1967 Aug;57(8):1381–1389. doi: 10.2105/ajph.57.8.1381

Mental retardation in children exposed in utero to the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

J W Wood, K G Johnson, Y Omori, S Kawamoto, R J Keehn

PMCID: PMC1227622 PMID: 6069014

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