'Between 1946 and 1958, the equivalent of more than two hundred million tons of TNT was detonated (on the inhabited Marshall Islands by the US Military) — like a Hiroshima every day for almost forty years.'<p>...<p>The local language grew full of horrible expressions for birth defects: “jellyfish” (babies born without bones), “grapes” (spontaneously aborted clumps of tissue), “turtles,” “octopuses,” “apples,” “devils.” The Crossroads tests were the beginning of one of the more disturbing American nuclear legacies—a trade of flesh for knowledge.