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What passes for debate on Capitol Hill is routinely an exercise in assessing the most cost-effective outlays to facilitate Armageddon, not how to prevent it.

Reporter’s note: Ever since I was a kid, my dad - who lives in New Cumberland, Cumberland County - would tell me how he watched two atomic bombs explode when

The Desert Rock exercises saw hundreds of soldiers maneuver around nuclear explosions in a series of tests in Nevada.

"That's why I got cancer," Noelan “Mac” McCormack said as he set a copy of Leatherneck magazine on his kitchen table. A mushroom cloud rose into the air in the black and white photograph on the page, an image from Operation Tumbler–Snapper, where a teenage McCormack and his fellow Marines in March 1955 were instructed to be as close as possible to the nuclear testing site as the military conducted experiments with this new and powerful force. "We were 3,000 yards away from ground zero on that one," he said.

In my previous article I focused on the origins of the Majestic 12 documents. Today, I'm focusing on the origins of Area