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Living With the Bomb
AUGUST 2005
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Age of Innocence
Photograph from U.S. Air Force
Shielded only by dark goggles, guests of the U.S. military settle back in 1951 to witness a nuclear blast on the Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The test was part of Operation Greenhouse, whose blasts resulted in signficant downwind fallout, posing health risks to spectators and test personnel. Exposure to radioactive fallout from nuclear tests in the United States alone may have killed an estimated 11,000 persons from cancer, according to a U.S. government study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study reported that "any person living in the continguous United States since 1951 has been exposed to radioactive fallout."
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