Damage due to the atomic bomb was not merely physical destruction and medical effects.
What is important is that the atomic bomb brought about the disruption of family and
relatives, and destruction of neighboring society.
The intensive destructive power of the atomic bomb caused the loss by destructive fire of
all kinds of facilities including companies, factories, stores, schools, hospitals, fire
stations, and government offices and destruction of the necessary organizations and the
various social functions located in the city.
Such total disintegration of the neighboring society and the community was unprecedented,
and this caused various difficulties for the rehabilitation of the exposed survivors.
How, specifically, such social relationships and organizations, including neighboring
society and community, were destroyed and disintegrated has not been fully clarified on
account of the tremendous extensiveness of the damage. This remains as an important
problem to be resolved hereafter in the elucidation of the social damage of the atomic
bomb disaster.