It is a history of United States government-engineered radiation experiments on unwitting Americans, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series Welsome wrote for The Albuquerque Tribune.

Albert Stevens, the man who survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human, four-year-old Simeon Shaw sent from Australia to the U.S. for treatment, and Elmer Allen are some of the notable subjects of the Manhattan Project program led by Joseph Gilbert Hamilton.

[3] Lucky Dragon Crew and their effect on the historical narrative: The intersection of the Cold War and popular culture is illuminated through Kimmy Yam's analysis of the Godzilla franchise in her NBC News article "'Godzilla was a metaphor for Hiroshima, and Hollywood whitewashed it.

'"[8] Yam draws attention to how America's commercialization of Godzilla modifies the anti-nuclear stance of Japan's 1954 Gojira, originally inspired by the "accidental" radiation exposure to the Lucky Dragon Crew.

This new narrative, which transforms a murderous ape into a hero, retells the story of death and positions nuclear technology as a tool that protects lives, thereby taking attention away from the nefarious actions perpetuated by the U.S. government.

[9] Furthermore, claims that confirmed "the federal government[s] sponsor[ing] of several thousand human radiation experiments" were followed by the implication that these atrocities were committed out of a greater obligation.