TIL that Kuboyama Aikichi, a Japanese fisherman, was the first known victim of hydrogen bomb radiation exposure. He was aboard the "Lucky Dragon No. 5" (Daigo Fukuryu Maru), a fishing boat caught in radioactive fallout from the 1954 U.S. Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test near Bikini Atoll.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2015/03/bikini-atoll-the-day-the-sun-rose-in-the-west/
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https://www.civilbeat.org/2015/03/bikini-atoll-the-day-the-sun-rose-in-the-west/
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Bikini Atoll: ‘The Day the Sun Rose in the West’
A survivor of radiation poisoning from a 1954 U.S. nuclear test in the Pacific talks about experiencing the massive explosion from his tuna boat.Mark Edward Harris (Honolulu Civil Beat)
