![]() ![]() Not only was nuclear fallout a public health menace, but entire ecosystems were contaminated with radioactive materials. During the early Cold War years, the federal government routinely detonated nuclear devices in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. After the Truman administration dropped atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II, a grim new epoch had arrived. With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the United States took control of Earth’s destiny for the first time. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. ![]()
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