Then, in a state of mesmerized detachment, I’d stare at images of mushroom clouds in various countries: the Trinity Test in the Jornada del Muerto desert, followed by explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, followed by the Soviet tests of Joe 1, Joe 2, and Joe 3. And then the first real United States thermonuclear test, Ivy Mike, which incinerated an island in Eniwetok Atoll, followed by the Soviet test of the Sloika, followed by the U.S. test of Castle Bravo, which spread nuclear fallout over the Rongelap and Rongerik atolls, and poisoned the crew of a Japanese fishing boat, and polluted waters
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