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ABSTRACT
The closer you are to nuclear weapons, the more you are aware of their dangers. People today seem to have forgotten—if they ever knew—what a single nuclear weapon can do. Which, if nothing else, is something that atmospheric testing can accomplish: Remind everyone of what’s at stake. The inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, whose home was turned into a nuclear proving ground, have certainly never forgotten. Nor has the crew of a Japanese fishing vessel that strayed too close to the nuclear weapon test known as Bravo.
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Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus has been writing about nuclear weapons, nuclear testing, and national security for more than 60 years, first as a Washington Post reporter (where he was part of the team that won a Pulitzer prize in 2002) and more recently for the Cipher Brief website. He is the author of the 2021 book Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders.