The Day the Sun Rose in the West : : Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I / / Matashichi Oishi.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 21 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the English-Language Edition
- Prologue: Sakura Junior High School and I
- 1 Irradiated
- 2 Return to Port, Chaotic Days
- 3 At Death's Door
- 4 The Bikini Incident Isn't Over
- Epilogue: Two Visits to the Marshall Islands, Home of Bikini
- Index