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The Atomic Times: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground
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What we're reading > Catch-22 meets Lord of the Flies, only non-fic

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This is a very interesting read, but not what I expected. It's more about the personal journey of one young man stationed on Eniwetok during a year of the bomb tests there, and less about the project itself. I was surprised by the really juvenile, nihilistic behavior of the enlisted men described, as well as really off-put by some of the creepy officers. This is definitely not your typical military history, but interesting in a kind of "train wreck I can't look away from" way. I'm about halfway through.


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