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Tsutsui of the 100-ton Daigo
Fukuryu Maru, in an interview with the ‘newspaper
Yomiuri.
“It was ‘our first realization we were suffering from
| atomic radiation burns.”
; One crewman was reported
‘still in serious’ condition at a
“Tokyo hospital.
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Tsutsul“said his *hoat“accidentally ‘wandered ‘into the Bikini atomic test area, ‘ignorant
lof the impendifg atomic tests.”.
On March -1, Tsutsui said
fthere was.a brilliant orange-red
astt on the horizon about 80
miles away. “Seven minutes’ later, we
heard 8 deafening explosion
and then saw in thenext, in-
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John :-Aillison: also’ proposed’ a
joint, Japanese-American inves-
tigation of the. March 1 incident
fin’ the”Bikint-Eniwetok:-test
region,“F *
ae Only one‘of‘the:23 crew mem-!
bers was considered in dangerous condition when their boat
‘arrived Sunday,.but all had entered a hospital’ today. Three
were added to the “serious”list,
but doctors said they expect all
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Hydrogen Blast Suspected
“The“intensity of the burns—
skin blackening and hair falling
out—and the men’s story.of the
-blast stirred speculation that the
March 1 test may have been a
‘thermonuclear (probably hydrogen) explosion, The crew mem-|
berg‘reports indicate they were
about 80 miles from the blast
center.
whe United States ‘embassy|
said-a-team of three American
and :three Japanese -doctors as-.
sociated with the Atomic: Bomb,
ualty Commission, in.- the’
atom-bombed.city.of Hirgshima:
sill treat the- victims. ., <>. ~~
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:ploded in- mid-Pacific,“the first
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Interest in:“the:‘Jatest tests
_ has -focused on;speculation that
they, would ‘include a hydrogen
bomb, the ‘most powerful explosion.ever set off by man.
‘On Match’ 11,.the AEC said
that 28° Americans and 236 naitives. of. the “Marshall - Islands
to
“were unexpectedly exposed
some radiation”, but suffered no
burns and.‘‘all: were ;Teported
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Japanese Foreign Office intends
to-take up the.matterwith the
United: States:votffoially,Japa-
ness officialseat.they.willashe
gompensation:“for the’ victims.
¥iQne" nuclear specialist, Prof.
Mitsuo ,Takeya,of Rikkyo. Uni-yersity, said the ;believes the
blast may +have:been’, ak“hy-
drogén-caliber bomb," basing his
theory onthebelfef"a regular
atomic, bomb :could- not have
hurled ‘the radioactive debris 80
miles, He said the ashes. were
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Experts.‘Astonished
Others in a position *to know,
but who asked not.te be quoted
by name, said a “warm-up” explosion of a hydrogen device in
thePacific March 1astonished
American stientists with a blast
‘at least 600 times -more power-
ful than; the Hiroshima atomic
bomb, They said it was three or
four times Stronger. than had
been expected.
The Hiroshima ‘bomb, which
caused 60,000 deaths, was-meas-
used at,20,000sons. of:‘INT, The
March 1-hydrogen explosion was
measured:at between 12,000,000
and "14,000,000 A. ons-of:,SENT, it
‘was said-. These sources also
‘said It was tivetimes: greater
(than. the_measure@™force pf
what was believedto-be-tliefirst.
H-bomb test;November:«,- 1952,
Other . comparisons ‘with - the
1952 tests variedyie4%
1,Explosion’Described
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‘of ‘the March-1 blast: y “#22
~ The-blast was’set off from: a
'150-foot tower-- and shot™a -nu‘clearcloud |more, than-317 Miles
‘into the ‘air, Veeeemales dem
The shock ‘swas felt at ‘Kwa
‘Jalein Island; 176 miles away..
There was a fall-out. of -nuclear dust on an inhabited island
330 miles away, but in harmless
quantities at that distance. ©
And, it was added;scientists|
how believe they-can’ buildhy: !
drogen weapons -with* an-exPlosive power of 100,000,000 tons of TNT, ‘as compared with -the
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