Lucky Dragon Remembered On 70th Anniversary Of Its Launch

TOKYO, JAPAN - NOVEMBER 05: A general view of an opening ceremony for a special event at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall on November 5, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. Seventy years after its completion, the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon No. 5) is still plowing through turbulent waters, remaining a powerful anti-nuclear symbol. The wooden fishing vessel and its crew were showered with radioactive fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954. In the hydrogen bomb test, 23 crew members aboard the vessel were exposed and one died about six months later. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)