Secondly, enough time had passed for these veterans to come to terms with their actions during the war. For some, the fiftieth anniversary would be the last time that they would be able to record their stories. First, many veterans who had served in the war were still alive, but realized that they were aging quickly. However, as the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II drew near in 1995, interest over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki renewed. Awareness of the dropping of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki diminished greatly.
The Soviet Union had fallen and the threat of nuclear destruction seemed to temporarily disappear. In the early 1990s, public attention concerning nuclear affairs was scant.
