title: From military surveillance to citizen counter-expertise: radioactivity monitoring in a nuclear world
abstract: On the hot, humid morning of January 31, 1944, nearly 600 Marshall Islanders assembled on the beach of Majuro Atoll to watch as the United States Navy shelled their lands. Although a clandestine US Marine landing party learned overnight that the Japanese military had departed almost two years earlier, the message arrived too late to stop the assault. The bombardment went on for 20 minutes or so. When it ended, Islanders met US forces on the shore. An officer posted a legal notice proclaiming in 