Top: Anti-nuclear demonstration, Wall St., 1982, New York City (photo by Gotfryd Bernard courtesy Library of Congress). Bottom, left to right: Anti-nuke rally in Harrisburg, [Pennsylvania] at the Capitol, 1979 (courtesy Wikimedia Commons); Three Mile Island personnel cleaning up radioactive contamination in the auxiliary building, Oct. 1979 (courtesy Wikimedia Commons); People carrying picket signs protesting against nuclear power and the Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO), April 28, 1976 (photo by Thomas J. O’Halloran, courtesy Library of Congress); Operation Buster-Jangle-Dog test, with troops participating in exercise Desert Rock I, Nov. 1, 1951 (courtesy Wikimedia Commons).
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