In a sense, this work represents the 3rd nuclear attack on the Japanese. Social commentator and artist Ben Shahn depicts Aikichi Kuboyama in a powerful black and white study. Kuboyama was a crew member on a Japanese fishing vessel who died of radiation poisoning following the 1954 H-Bomb test on Bikini Atoll. Along with his crew of 22, they inadvertently wandered into the above-ground nuclear weapon test zone and got covered in the white dust.