ON 1 JULY 1946 BY THE BIKINI CALENDAR (30 June in New York), millions of people around the world waited anxiously by their radios for the results of the first postwar atomic bomb test. No one knew what to expect. Bill McGee was one of the 42,000 servicemen, scientists, and civilians at the Bikini Atoll who stood in harm’s way and exposed themselves to the first postwar tests of the atomic bomb.
This is his story…
