During the Second World War, Japanese Special Attack Units were specialized units normally used for suicide missions. They included kamikaze bombers, Fukuryu ("Crouching Dragon" suicide scuba divers (who would swim under boats and use explosives mounted on bamboo poles to destroy both the boat and themselves). Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Jump to: navigation, search A kamikaze, a Mitsubishi Zero in this case, about to hit the USS Missouri. ...
Daigo Fukuryu Maru encountered the fallout from the U.S. Castle Bravo nuclear test on the Bikini Atoll, near the Marshall Islands, on March 1, 1954.
However, the test was over twice as powerful as it was predicted to be, and changes in weather patterns blew nuclear fallout, in the form of a fine ash, outside of the danger zone.
The tragedy of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru gave rise to a fierce anti-nuclear movement in Japan, rising especially from the fear that the contaminated fish had re-entered the market.
Daigo Fukuryu Maru (第五福龍丸, Daigo Fukuryū Maru) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat, which was exposed to and contaminated by radiation caused by the United States' hydrogen bomb experiment in Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954.
Daigo Fukuryu Maru encountered the American nuclear bomb experiment on Bikini Atoll, near the Marshall Islands, on March 1, 1954.
The tragedy of Daigo Fukuryu Maru brought rise to a fierce anti-nuclear movement in Japan.
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