Aikichi
Kuboyama,
forty years of age
on March 1, 1954.
Chief radio operator
on the Lucky Dragon.
When the nuclear fallout
from the Bravo test
contaminated
your ship
you were not so lucky.
You were the first Japanese victim
to die
from an H-Bomb test.
You prayed to be the last victim,
but it was not
to be.
David Krieger is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
