Grateful for the complex and detailed review of my book Nuclear bodies: the global hibakusha by Sonali Huria in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.
"In Operation Desert Rock, the military conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada Proving Grounds between 1951 and 1957. In total, more nearly 400,000 American soldiers and civilians would be classified as 'atomic veterans.'"
Colonialism is an essential part of nuclear testing by Nuclear Weapon States (NWS), whether that test site is domestic or in the edges of empires.
Two NWS did not test even one weapon within their own national borders (UK & France). The 3 NATO nuke states tested all of their massive H-Bombs in the Pacific (empire).
Domestic sites are always located near minority ethnic or religious communities. China tested all its weapons in Uyghur territory.
Read my paper, "Nuclear Conquistadors: Military #Colonialism in Nuclear Test Site Selection during the Cold War," (updated version in my recent book, Nuclear Bodies).