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DEDICATED TO-AIKICHI KUBOYAMA-"SHI NO HAI."
On March 1, 1954, something went wrong & the winds shifted...the cloud drifted over the "Lucky Dragon," & some 3 hrs. later, the Japanese fishermen were amazed to see dust falling on their tiny boat. "SHI no hai," they called the whitish gray flecks which continued to swirl down on them. But at that time, they knew nothing of the lethal character of the fall-out! That night the crew became nauseated, suffered a loss of appetite, & parts of their skin touched by the chalk-like dust had BECOME INFLAMED, TENDER TO TOUCH & LATER PAINFUL. The penetrating rays from the dust bombarded the crew night & day, as if there was a gigantic X-ray machine in the boat's hold that you couldn't turn off. The crew's radioman, AIKICHI KUBOYAMA, died SEPTEMBER 23, 1954, the readings were 50xs the peacetime allowance set by experts-it was more than 2 weeks after the Bikini Island Test explosion.
DEDICATED TO-AIKICHI KUBOYAMA-"SHI NO HAI."
On March 1, 1954, something went wrong & the winds shifted...the cloud drifted over the "Lucky Dragon," & some 3 hrs. later, the Japanese fishermen were amazed to see dust falling on their tiny boat. "SHI no hai," they called the whitish gray flecks which continued to swirl down on them. But at that time, they knew nothing of the lethal character of the fall-out! That night the crew became nauseated, suffered a loss of appetite, & parts of their skin touched by the chalk-like dust had BECOME INFLAMED, TENDER TO TOUCH & LATER PAINFUL. The penetrating rays from the dust bombarded the crew night & day, as if there was a gigantic X-ray machine in the boat's hold that you couldn't turn off. The crew's radioman, AIKICHI KUBOYAMA, died SEPTEMBER 23, 1954, the readings were 50xs the peacetime allowance set by experts-it was more than 2 weeks after the Bikini Island Test explosion.