The Beginning or the End Quotes

“sign of things to come, radioactive particles were detected over San Francisco a few days later, and after that over Paris, bringing this “fallout” threat to wide public attention for the first time. Also endangered were the forty thousand U.S. sailors and soldiers who had been crowded cavalierly nearby, or who mounted the ships later to inspect or clean them—with safety guidelines widely ignored—and were exposed to troubling levels of radiation.”
― Greg Mitchell, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood--and America--Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb