The Bohemians, Chapter 1
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In this issue, Henry Giardina uses film as a catalyst to understand what it means to love a volatile person in “The Love We Deserve.” Margaret Yapp expands our vocabulary in “My Love Language is Midwestern” and other poems. And New York Times bestselling author Jasmin Darznik travels with Dorothea Lange, one of America’s most celebrated photographers, to San Francisco in 1918 in the first chapter from Darznik’s forthcoming novel The Bohemians.
The images in this issue depict the first nuclear blast broadcast live on television on March 17, 1953.
The first nuclear blast broadcast live on television took place March 17, 1953, in northwestern Nevada. Operation Doorstep was meant to determine the effect of a 16-kiloton nuclear explosion on fifty automobiles, two wood-frame houses, eight backyard bomb shelters, and a goodly number of mannequins. The houses were built specially for the test, and the other objects were carefully arranged, as though for a dollhouse. The ostensible purpose of all this was “to show the people of America what might be expected if an atomic burst took place over the doorsteps of our major cities.”
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