The museum's plaque referring to Shot Harry and noting that St. George residents were told to stay indoors for two hours afterward does not tell our story. Nowhere does the plaque relate the health effects those residents suffered. Footage of protesters at the site does not tell the downwinders' story.

Neither does a scientist admitting that "we put people at risk" in a film shown in the Ground Zero Theatre tell our story. Nowhere does the film explain what happened and continues to happen to the thousands upon thousands of people who were put at risk.

What is missing in this museum is the human face of the unwitting people living downwind, who were victims of what one New York Times reporter called "the most prodigiously reckless program of scientific experimentation in American history."

We declared victory in the Cold War. But as a result of that war, people got sick. People died. Yet those two phrases are included nowhere in this museum. Until they are, the history as laid out there is incomplete.

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Mary Dickson's article "Living and Dying With Fallout" was recently named the best article of 2004 by Dialogue magazine.