Fred Hagstrom
Strong Silent Type Press 2023
Printed in relief with drum leaf binding
13hx13.5 w 28 pages
Cost 700
Edition of 22.
2 edition copies and 1 proof copy available

Testing: Book Two Downwinders documents the experiences of residents of the Southwest who were exposed to radiation from 126 atomic bombs detonated at the Nevada test site from 1951 to 1963.

Sample text

In school they showed us a film called A is for Atom, B is for Bomb. I think most of us who grew up in that period, we’ve all in our own minds added C is for cancer D is for Death.

The only country that ever bombed our civilians with nuclear weapons was our government.  We killed our own.  They just assumed we were all cowboys and Indians and a bunch of Mormons out here, and that we didn’t matter.

You would grab hold of a sheep to move in into a corral or a little pen, and the hide- the wool, the skin, everything, would just pull right off of them.  Just like they had been baked in a microwave.