No Place to Hide 1946/1984

David Bradley, a writer, surgeon & antinuclear advocate whose best-selling first book, “No Place to Hide,” was an eyewitness account of the postwar atomic tests on Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, died on 1/7/08 in Norway, Me. He was 92. A former resident of Hanover, NH, Dr. Bradley had lived in Maine in recent years. Published in 1948 by Little, Brown & Company, “No Place to Hide” was a journal of his time as an Army medical officer on Bikini in the summer of 1946. His job was to monitor radiation levels in the wake of the first two nuclear tests there. From 1946 to 1958, the United States conducted 23 such tests on Bikini. Reviewing “No Place to Hide” in The New Yorker, E.B. White wrote: “Dr. Bradley’s is a peculiarly effective book, I think. It is casual, personal and written by a man who seems to have the mind and training of a scientist, the eyes and ears of a poet.”--Margalit Fox