“When you see something horrible happening, your instinct is to do something about it. You can freeze in fearful apathy or you can even talk yourself into saying that it isn't horrible. I can't do that. I have to act. This is too horrible. We know it. Let's all act.”
So wrote Albert Bigelow, skipper of the Golden Rule, as he contemplated sailing his vessel into the US Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear test site at the Eniwetok Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands (see p28-29…