Orem Library

Takashi's dream: In 1945, the U.S. government dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima and on Nagasaki, Japan. It was the beginning of an era that continues today threatening our world and everything we hold dear. This is the real story of the personal side of such insanity. It is a story that will inspire you again and again towards peace. Bird of happiness: This Tibetan tale follows the dangerous journey of a young girl as she searches for the Bird of...

Mr. and Mrs. Shizuma and their niece Yasuko make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, devastated by the atomic bomb. Five years later, Yasuko is living with her aunt and uncle, and her senile grandmother, in a village containing many survivors of the bombing. Yasuko does not appear to be affected, but the Shizumas are worried about her marriage prospects, fearing that she might succumb to radiation sickness at any time.

Captured by Hirohito's soldiers at the fall of Hong Kong and transferred to a Japanese slave camp outside Hiroshima, Captain Joe Sandingham was present when the bomb was dropped. Now a shell of a man, he lives in a cheap Hong Kong hotel, scrounging for food and the occasional bargirl. The locals call him 'Hiroshima Joe' with a mixture of pity and contempt. But Joe - haunted by the sounds and voices of his past, debilitated by illness, and shattered...

Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands...