They chose Amchitka Island, vacated by Native people more than 100 years earlier and used as a military base in World War II. In 1964, officials with the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission needed a place to test nuclear devices that were too large for the Nevada Test Site. Today, researchers are trying to figure how the nuclear tests are affecting Alaska. Thirty years ago, this uninhabited island in the Aleutians was the site of three underground nuclear blasts. Seventeen miles long, three miles wide and carpeted with green tundra, Amchitka Island does not resemble a place that absorbed a nuclear explosion 385 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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