Kuboyama and the Saga of the Lucky Dragon

Kuboyama and the Saga of the Lucky Dragon

Publication Date: January 01, 1965

Publisher: Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher

Pages: 68

Format: Hardcover

Authors: Richard Hudson, Ben Shahn

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A cloud of strange whittish-gray flakes drifted dwn from the Pacific sky and fell on Aikichi Kuboyama and his twenty-two shipmates on March 1, 1954... On september 23 of that year, after spending most of the intervening time in the hospital, Kuboyama died. He was the first victim of the H-bomb age of nuclear weapons.
Why did Kuboyama die?