The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I

This is a compelling account of an incident that few of us remember today, but which had an impact far beyond the few fishermen on the Lucky Dragon #5 who were irradiated in the Bravo test sixty-some years ago. It is a glimpse of the world situation at the time through the lens of the unfortunate fate of the ship and its crew. The author captures the tension between Japan and the U.S. over the incident, which occurred soon after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the anti-nuclear testing crusade that was beginning even back then, the selfrighteous insistence of a nuclear power on continuing nuclear tests even while asserting limited responsibility for damages, and so much more.