July 2023

In October 1956, a boy from the Warm Springs area, just north of the Nevada Test Site (NTS), died in a hospital far from home in Reno. Martin Bordoli came home from school feeling tired, running a fever and died less than a year from the initial diagnosis: stem cell leukemia. His nickname was “Butch,” […]

Just as a magician diverts attention from one hand onto another, dominant organizations in society engage in rhetorical strategies highlighting some things while obscuring others. As the Upshot-Knothole series began in March of 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) distributed a pamphlet in the communities downwind of the Nevada Test Site (NTS). “Continental Weapons Tests…Public