Project on Ethics and Art in Testimony (PEAT)

Oral Histories on National Association of Radiation Survivors

Oral histories of atomic veterans serving as the last Board Members of the National Association of Radiation Survivors (NARS, 1988 – 2007); additional NARS members; an anti-nuclear peace activist; and expert commentators.

The oral histories are available at Bancroft Library, UC Berkley. The links below access detailed tables of contents and document lists. For access to these restricted links, contact Dr. Jean Maria Arrigo at peat@peat-intel.org.

Fred Allingham, 1941- Vicissitudes of the National Association of Radiation Survivors, 1995  

Hal Brody, 1944- Conscientious Sabotage at the Nevada Test Site, 1997   Commentaries by Harold William Rood* Assessment of Brody’s Narrative of Nuclear Testing, 1997   Views on Torture Interrogation of Terrorists and on Brody's Position, 1997

Ernest Garcia, 1928- Post-War Black Operations in South America, 1995   On Torture Interrogation of Nazis and Terrorists, 1997   Post-War Black Operations Revisited, 2001   The Military Chaplaincy and Spiritual Problems of Covert Operators, 2003 Commentary by Harold William Rood* Assessment of Garcia’s Narratives of Black Operations, 1995   Commentary by Robert Stapleton*      Assessment of Garcia’s Narratives of Black Operations, 1995   Commentary by Herbert Ely* Assessment of Garcia’s Narratives of Black Operations, 2003  

F. Lincoln Grahlfs, 1922- Ghost from Ground Zero, Sociologist, and President of NARS, 2005

Kenneth Kendall, 1930- My Life—Not the Lives of My Children—for My Country!, 1995   Torture Interrogation in the Korean War, 1997 Commentary by Karen Batson Effects of my Father’s Radiation Exposure at the Nevada Test Site, 1996

Harold William Rood, 1922- Moral Development of an Intelligence Officer in the Clash of Civilizations, 2001   Interviewed by J.M. Arrigo and Grant Marler Assessment of Brody’s Narrative of Nuclear Testing, 1997   On Torture Interrogation of Terrorists and Hal Brody's Position, 1997   Assessment of Ernest Garcia’s Narratives of Black Operations, 1995   Assessment of Robert Stapleton’s Narrative of Nuclear Testing, 1995        Commentary by Robert Stapleton* 1995 Response to Rood’s Assessment of Stapleton’s Nuclear Test Site Narratives, 1995

Robert Stapleton, 1923- A U.S. Air Force Pilot’s Witness to Devastation of Native Lands and Peoples in Nuclear Testing, 1995   Assessment of Ernest Garcia’s Narratives of Black Operations, 1995   Response to Harold Willimam Rood’s Assessment of Stapleton’s Nuclear Test Site Narrative, 1995   Assessment of Tegtmeyer’s Narratives of the Nevada Test Site, 1995   Commentary by Harold William Rood* Rood’s Assessment of Stapleton’s Narrative of Nuclear Testing, 1995

Raye Tegtmeyer, 1919-2005 Loyalty to Country and Betrayal by Country, 1995 God, Country, Honor, Family—Army, Army Air Corps, U.S. Air Forces—1 February 1942 to 1 November 1964, ( handwritten autobiography), 2002 Commentary by Nellie Amondson My Trip to the Trinity Test Site with Major Ray Tegtmeyer, 1995   Commentary by Robert Stapleton*   Assessment of Tegtmeyer’s Narratives of the Nevada Test Site, 1995