Living Beneath the Atomic Cloud

The booklet, Living Beneath the Atomic Cloud, was originally published in the United States by the Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College in 1983. We have created this digital version to allow future readers the opportunity to read these powerful testimonies of the children of Nagasaki.

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Table of Contents

• Preface
• I Squat Down on the Spot Where We Cremated Our Mother and Touch The Earth With My Finger — Fujio Tsujimoto
• Our House WAs Ruined. My Doll Was Broken — Junko Miyata
• I Hope Father Can Walk Soon — Kayano Nagai
• She Strained With All Her Might. We Heard Cracking Sound, And The Beam Was Lifted A Little — Michiko Ogino
• They Were All Swollen Like Pumpkins — Sakue Kawasaki
• In a Daze I Began Walking Toward Toward The Mountains Calling, "Mama, Mama." — Shizuko Kubo
• Mother Fairly Stumbled As She Ran Up To Dad And Said, "How Lucky! How Lucky!" — Shuzo Nishio
• Putting My Hands On My Chest, I Shouted "Mother Mary, Mother Mary" — Toshihiro Fukahori
• I Feel My Elder Brother Lives Somewhere And Is Watching Us — Taeko Arikawa
• "Ah. Kiyoshi, It's A Mercy You Return Alive." — Sunako Matsuo
• "If Mother Dies," I Thought, "What Shall I Do?" — Mitsuyuki Nishida
• I Have Never Felt That The Scars On My Mother Are Ugly — Yasuko Kataoka
• Among Them Only My Family Had No Scratch — Setsuko Mitani
• Look! A Parachute! — Ikuko Doira
• Is This The Home I Had Been Dreaming Of Coming Back To For So Long? — Masako Imamura
• We Will Do Our Best To Make Nagasaki City More Beautiful Than It Used To Be... — Tomiomi Koda
• Oh Electric Lamps Are Shining There! — Tadashi Fukahori