03: A Low-Use Segment of the Population

Between 1945 and 1992, the United States detonated over 1,000 nuclear bombs, primarily at the Nevada Test Site and in the Marshall Islands, with additional detonations in New Mexico, Alaska, Mississipi, Christmas Island, Colorado, and in the Pacific Ocean. That amounts to, essentially, setting off a nuclear bomb every two weeks for half a century. The colossal amounts of radioactive fallout produced by these "tests" have permanently contaminated diverse landscapes and harmed generations of communities across the world.  On this episode, you'll hear from artists Trevor Paglen, Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, Richard Misrach, Cara Despain, and Michael Light; environmental scholar Sarah Fox (Downwind, 2014); downwind activists Mary Dickson and Tina Cordova; nurse practitioner Rebecca Barlow; and Stephanie Wheeler and Melissa Carter of the St. George Art Museum.  Learn more, make a donation, or find a text-based version of today's program at: timezeropod.com. Read "Witness to the Cold War in the desert" by Terry Tempest Williams for High Country News.