Three tuna fishermen who survived radioactive fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific say they despair at the world's adherence to such weapons, days after North Korea claimed to have tested a device.
"If (the bomb is) used, it is the end of humankind. I know the horror of it as a person who experienced it," Matashichi Oishi, 81, said.
Oishi recalls a bright light bursting into the boat's dim cabin at dawn on March 1, 1954, when the United States detonated a bomb for its so-called Bravo test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.