I Draw the Atomic Bomb as a Client and Get a Half-Century of Fame in the Nevada Desert From: Public Relations Quarterly | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Pedersen, Wes | Copyright Public Relations Quarterly Winter 2006/2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

"If you begin to glow in the dark, we'll put you on night watch."

Those were the reassuring words of my boss, Charlie Arnot, as he sent me off to make friends with the atomic bomb in 1952.

To me, it was the professional opportunity of the career I had begun a year earlier with the Department of State's International Information Agency, soon to transit into the U.S. Information Agency. Denny Griswold, the New York matriarch who edited PR News, would later peg USIA perfectly: "the...

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