The Lucky Dragon Incident

This award-winning Maryland History Day documentary, by Lauren White, portrays the fate of the Lucky Dragon, a Japanese fishing vessel that was accidentally showered with radioactive ash from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands. The incident and its effect on subsequent events led to a worldwide compromise that changed the course of the arms race in the midst of the Cold War. White conducted research at the Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College, Ohio, as well as at the National Archives, the Library of Congress and various television and radio archives. She corresponded with two historians and professors of East Asian history, a former Naval officer, and a State Department analyst and expert on East Asia.

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[TheMadHistorian]

For the most part, factually correct and well done.

One minor issue--the pronunciation of "Dai," as in the first character of 第五福竜丸, is "die," not "day."

Other than that, great job and impressively well done.

What kind of source material did you use when you created this?

[ladyinpink5]

Wow this is such an important part of history, I can't believe that I hadn't heard about it before. Great Job!!!

[Seeknhawk]

"No specific warning", when the U.S. Navy tells you not to go there, dont go there! They were told not to enter the waters around tha atoll!

[sweetbixkid]

Superbly informative documentary!