I’ve written a memoir about my adventures in nuclear disarmament. My first adventure was being a member of the Bethlehem Peace Pilgrimage (1982-1983), a 6700-mile walk across the United States and nine other countries. I spent the next quarter century uncovering America’s deception about radioactive pollution from the production and testing of nuclear weapons, mostly focused on the Hanford Site in south-central Washington State. Hanford produced the plutonium that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945.

I advocated for the downwinders, people exposed to Hanford’s harmful radiation releases. I organized a national coalition that forced the federal government to close Hanford’s plutonium operations. In 1993, I spoke at an international forum on plutonium processing and met with Hibakusha in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.