Twenty-first century colonialism in the Pacific  What We Bury At
Night:  Disposable Humanity  I was fishing for mackerel in the
morning with my grandfather when the bomb was dropped. I was
nine, but something like that you never forget…. We knew the
tests were being done, bombs were being dropped. We had seen and
heard some of them before. But this was different.… It was not a
boom. Atomic and hydrogen bombs don’t do that. They don’t boom.
They rumble. Like thunder. The sky turned completely red.… The
beach was red, the ocean was red, the fish in my basket was red.
SUCH ARE the harrowing words of one survivor of the US Nuclear
Testing Program (NTP) in the Marshall Islands, which took place
from 1946 through 1958. The man was remembering the 1954 test,
code named Castle Bravo, which was the detonation of the largest
nuclear device  by the United States up to that point. Writer,
lawyer, and activist Julian Aguon collected stories in his
book, What We Bury at Night: Disposable Humanity. The book is a
people’s h