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Published as an anonymous leaflet by Contemporary Issues, Bookchin claims credit for it in an interview published in Anarchism, Marxism, and the Future of the Left (AK Press, 1999): “I was working with this group, helping it produce Contemporary Issues after 1948. And in 1954, when the hydrogen bomb was tested somewhere out on the Bikini atoll, it produced worldwide concern, in part because two Japanese fisherman who were dusted by fallout died, and others became ill. I wrote a fiery leaflet called ‘Stop the Bomb,’ and our group gave out about 20,000 copies in New York. We also sent copies to Japan, where the largest Japanese daily, with a circulation of nine million readers, translated the leaflet and published it on page three.”