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REMARKABLE DESTRUCTION

Thank you very much for Emmet Gowin’s remarkable illustration of the destructive damage to the Nevada Test Site by the U.S. government (“Man Looking Down Earth Looking Upward,” June 2022). The amount of damage to the land is frightening. And also thanks so much for Terry Tempest Williams’ profound and moving essay by a “downwinder.” I loved her derivation of the term pappekak, but BS has never been more clear.

Chuck Trost

Pocatello, Idaho

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