Detonating nuclear warheads (Bryson)
August 3rd, 2007 | Published in War, Ecology, History, Quotes
Altogether between 1946 and 1962, the United States detonated just over a thousand nuclear warheads, including some three hundred in the open air, hurling numberless tons of radioactive dust into the atmosphere. The USSR, China, Britain, and France detonated scores more.
–Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir (2006), p. 125