A writer of the fifties recalls the Beats and the bomb

JAN 16 2013

A writer of the fifties recalls the Beats and the bomb

The writer Robert Briggs describes witnessing an atomic bomb test while serving in the US Army and the Beat Generation he belonged to in the 1950s, in a film directed by Chel White. First-hand testimony from within the scene rather than commentary about it.

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