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and tie proposed eX
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He ‘Felt warmer than!
in the air.”
usual and the others remarked |it s2i¢,
The 23 crew members of the their bodies felt aglow. But | hat hy
Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon) they paid litle attention because iyaleht
had only a faint
picion of} they were used to sun and wind-i Gent,
what they were seeing.
burn.
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“The gun is rising in a strange
ifashion,” said one.
Capt.
Tadaichi
Tsutsui
was
uneasy, however. He thought
sts,
eade
Dwight Martin, Life’s Tokyo! Of, thebombesis. He headed
“purean chief, told the story
In their radicectiv
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- in the words of the fish- the crew mem}
acic acuve
c:ndition,
rs began
to get
HL They Jost their appetites
hirg boat was, by its and their sake did not maké
.oring, 71 miles eastthem drunk, They were menat of Bikini atoli—14 tally depressed.
ouside the US, Govern-{
“Gur faces felt very hot and
tricted zone.
ment's
then when our faces began to
The fishermen
saw
the
flashes)
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urn this pencil-lead color, we
on the horizon at 6:12 am. knew something extraordinary
T se on deck yelled to the men had happened,” said Tadashi
be ww.
Nobody Kenew what it
was but cr wrens
moto.
atathey had known how sick
a thought o
they were, he added, they
iword the Japanese* ccined to deStia
have sto pped at Midva
Sane
:
eribe the 1945 atcm bombs thatiyucng and asked for ‘american
‘a
2 and Nagai help. But they didn’t know,
‘dokan, Uke
thuners ro} rae
were
white
upon tiem, “shi no nai,” (ash
of death) the Japanese called it.
“Just before the rain of the
ting to buy radioactive ast
fron the Fukuryu Maru. Oka:
ashes began, the real sun in the
€ast was obliterated,” Masu
said.“Welookedinthe.
Some of the crewmen got an
est unbearable” itch and
n breaking out with big