hiroshima (japan)

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

A mother tells what happened to her family during and after the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Argues that information and debate about President Truman's decision to drop the bomb on Japan have been suppressed.

The lives and fates of three people--a scientist smuggled into America to work at Los Alamos, a young woman quarantined on a refugee ship in the Atlantic, and a young Japanese girl--collide in August 1945 with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Discusses the events and decisions that led to the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, particularly Truman's role as decision maker and initiator of the act.