This article reports the impact of Russian atomic testing on Japan. A member of the Japanese Diet, or Parliament, reports that “radioactive ash” from a Russian blast in Siberia had fallen on the country. Japan was (and is) the only country to experience atomic attack, having been bombed twice by nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World War (1939-1945). Atomic tests in the Pacific region caused great concern in Japan and an American test in the Pacific on March 1, 1954, caused radiation burns to Japanese fisherman. Relatively little was known in the early 1950s about the indirect impacts of nuclear testing, particularly so-called “nuclear fallout.”
Greenfield Recorder-Gazette. “Say Russian Atomic Particles Falling On Japan.” March 25, 1954. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l07-018/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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