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The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I (A Latitude 20 Book)
Oishi Matashichi
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Description for The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I (A Latitude 20 Book)
Paperback. Translator(s): Minear, Richard H. Series: A Latitude 20 Book. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKCM; HBJM; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 325.
On March 1, 1954, the U.S. exploded a hydrogen bomb at Bikini in the South Pacific. The fifteen-megaton bomb was a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, and its fallout spread far beyond the official “no-sail” zone the U.S. had designated. Fishing just outside the zone at the time of the blast, the Lucky Dragon #5 was showered with radioactive ash. Making the difficult voyage back to their home port of Yaizu, twenty-year-old Oishi Matashichi and his shipmates became ill from maladies they could not comprehend. They were all hospitalized with radiation sickness, and one ... Read more
On March 1, 1954, the U.S. exploded a hydrogen bomb at Bikini in the South Pacific. The fifteen-megaton bomb was a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, and its fallout spread far beyond the official “no-sail” zone the U.S. had designated. Fishing just outside the zone at the time of the blast, the Lucky Dragon #5 was showered with radioactive ash. Making the difficult voyage back to their home port of Yaizu, twenty-year-old Oishi Matashichi and his shipmates became ill from maladies they could not comprehend. They were all hospitalized with radiation sickness, and one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Series
A Latitude 20 Book
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824835576
SKU
V9780824835576
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