Table of Contents

Foreword / John W. Dower vii
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue xv
1. Nagasaki 1
2. Born in America 12
3. Pearl Harbor's Impact 21
4. Love and War in 1944 30
5. Homecoming and the Bomb 42
6. To Japan at Last 51
7. Getting Organized 59
8. The Thunderbolt 69
9. Expanding Research 76
10. Through Guileless Eyes 86
11. Lobbying and Researching 94
12. Emerging Answers 104
13. The Genetic Puzzle 118
14. Farewell in Hiroshima 126
"The Peacemaker" 145
Appendix 147
Glossary 149
Notes 161
References 169

About the Author

James N. Yamazaki is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Louis B. Fleming is a former foreign correspondent and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times.

Reviews

oYamazaki, a Japanese-American doctor who served in World War II, has written an absorbing memoir that is also a sobering account of the continuing effects of radiation and nuclear weapons...O --Meg Dyer, Bloomsbury Review oDr. YamazakiOs painfully concise observations of children affected by the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki force us to see what actually took place beneath the mushroom cloud.O --Daniel K. Inouye, United States Senator, HawaiOi