Noise #138: Military Musicians and Atomic Veterans

How U.S. service members became silent nuclear test subjects.

In 2012, I wrote an article for the National Endowment for the Arts about American military bands, and the vital diplomatic roles they play at home and abroad.

I had no clue that military musicians also occupied a darker, little-known place in American history: as early human test subjects for the effects of nuclear radiation.

In today’s New York Times, …