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It was 1945.
For the first time in humanhistory,the
Atomic
Bomb was dropped over Hiroshima.
And dropped once more over Nagasaki.
Then over Bikini Atoll,another first
the
Hydrogen Bomb was dropped.
There a fishing boat called Lucky Dragon
saild.
The death ashes fell all around,and
half
a year later Aikichi Kuboyama died
in his
home port of Yaizu.
Once,twice,three times Japanese fell
victim
to the Nuclear Age.
--Afterword(May,1983)--
And not only Japanese.
Micronesians on nearby atolls all and
all
dusted in radioactive ash their reef
utterly
poisoned.
Bikinians,assured their beloved homeland
was safe to return to overjoyed!
Then struck down radiation disease,cancer,leukemia.
And suffer still.
Bikini and Yaizu.
Partners by default.
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