A documentary director whose work on the development of the atomic bomb is currently nominated for an Emmy recently visited the island of Tinian to get a feel of the island.<\/p>\n
Stephen Walker, whose dramatic documentary, \u201cA Day that Shook the World\u201d chronicles the period of the A-bombs Fatman and Littleboy from the period of production to the time they were dropped, said his trip to the island got started with the serendipitous finding of a book about the island. \u201cSitting there on the shelf in shiny, full color, mint condition was this book\u2026well\u2026booklet\u2014big, lovely picture on the front, \u201cTinian,\u201d with the name Don Farrell on the bottom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Walker, who was looking for information on the tiny, little island, had found Don Farrell\u2019s book appropriately titled \u201cTinian\u201d at a bookshop at the Bradbury Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He had already been making plans to visit the island but had decided to do more research. Upon reading the book, he decided that he must see Tinian for himself and meet this book\u2019s author, Farrell.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no idea how it got there,\u201d said Farrell, when asked how his book got to Los Alamos, New Mexico\u2014the birthplace of the bombs.<\/p>\n
Walker visited the island of Tinian not just to meet the author of the book, which he described as \u201cfantastic,\u201d but to breath its atmosphere, meet the locals, and get a feel of the island. He actually got on a plane to compare color photos of the island from 60 years ago to today\u2019s island, just to see the changes that he thought to himself were \u201cdramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walker\u2019s documentary, \u201cA Day that Shook the World,\u201d has been nominated for an Emmy award, and Walker himself is in the process of writing a book based on his research. (Tinian PIO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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