August 6, 2025
In partnership with the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall in Tokyo, Japan, a CNS team has produced a visual narrative combining digitally re-textured archival photographs with creatively re-imagined historical scenes to reconstruct the fateful events surrounding the Castle Bravo test and the voyage of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a Japanese fishing boat contaminated with deadly fallout from the test.
View the narrative in English
View the narrative in Japanese
It is our hope that this narrative will serve not only as an accessible entry point into the historical events surrounding the Daigo Fukuryu Maru, but also as a means of fostering broader awareness about the humanitarian and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons. Through this story, we invite readers to reflect critically on the legacy of nuclear testing and to consider the ongoing relevance of efforts toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
*The narrative is produced for educational purposes and not intended to reflect the official institutional views of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies or Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
