›Rasha Abaas (14 years old)

Died of leukemia in 1998. Her father died during the Gulf war. Her mother devoted herself to caring for Lasha, but couldnÕt get proper medical treatment due to the economic sanctions. She left a memo saying ŅPlease donÕt forget meÓ.

›Laura Bailie (79 years old)

Used to be a typist for Robert Oppenheimer, the Father of the atomic-bomb. She married TomÕs father and started to live as a farmer in Hanford. Her first pregnancy resulted in a miscarriage.

›Terry Bailey (52 years old)

Tom's brother. He grows potatoes, oats, corns, meadow grass and apples and exports them to international market, mainly Japan. A cracker-barrel American. Loves McDonald's.

›Mustafa (10 years old)

Lived in Basra, southern part of Iraq, where the battlefield was during the Gulf war. He has been getting medical treatment for leukemia. Due to economic sanctions, he is in danger of having his medical treatment stopped. He is the 5th boy out of 8 brothers.

› Khyri (Father of Mustafa) (51 years old)

A farmer. He grows gumbos using a traditional Iraqi irrigation method. He is a typical Iraqi farmer.
›Shuntaro Hida(85 years old)

Exposed to radiation from the bombing when he was working as a military doctor in Hiroshima. Through his experiences, he travels around the world to teach people about the risks of low-dose exposure to radioactivity. He has been helping the victims to get compensation from the government. He still practices medicine to this day.

›Tom Bailie (56 years old)

He has been farming downwind from the Hanford plutonium factory, which manufactures plutonium, in Washington State, USA. He suffered a serious illness in his childhood. He has been actively suing the U.S. government for the community for over 14 years for the damage caused by exposure to radiation. The U.S. government admitted that the Hanford plutonium factory released radioactive material between the 1940s and 1950s into the air on purpose, but they havenÕt compensated anyone for it.

›Cayce Rood (52 years old)

Used to be a comptroller at the Hanford plutonium factory. He has warned the factory to change their sloppy management and control radioactive material, but the factory didnÕt do anything about it. Finally, he blew the whistle on them. Until then, people had no idea about the risks of high-concentrated nuclear waste. The Hanford plutonium factory finally stopped manufacturing plutonium. He was fired but then re-hired as a supervisor of waste treatment. However, he was fired again after he accused the Hanford plutonium factory of sloppy management.

›Juward Al Ali (57 years old)

A doctor at Saddam educational hospital in the southern part of Iraq. Since the Gulf war, the number of cancer patients in this area keeps increasing. He has been treating these cancer patients. He anguishes over not be able to cure those patients who could be cured if there was enough medication.

›Sanae Ikeda (69 years old)

All 5 of his brothers and sisters were killed by the bomb in Nagasaki and himself exposed to high levels of radiation. He buried his 4 year old sisterÕs body. He started to work as soon as he graduated from junior high school to make a living since his parents became disabled due to A-bomb sickness. Now he feels his mission is to convey his experience of being witness to the horrors of atomic bombs to the younger generation.