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“Therein lies the ambiguity of contemporary Japan: it is a pacifist nation sheltering under the American nuclear umbrella. One hopes that the accident at the Fukushima facility will allow the Japanese to reconnect with the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to recognize the danger of nuclear power, and to put an end to the illusion of the efficacy of deterrent that is advocated by nuclear powers.”

“Radioactivity may be invisible, but the atomic age does have color: the ‘color of calamity,’ the ‘ash-colored’ incinerated bodies and the crinkly pink flesh around the eyes of the victims, the black spots on the corpses of the mother and her child. The color is also green, like military costumes.”