Puzzling Paragraph

Once upon a time in the 50’s and 60’s in the South West of The United states of America, the government would test their nuclear bombs out in the deserts. The low populations in the dessert areas of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona made it a prime location for the United States Military to conduct their tests. Everyone in the region went along with it and payed no mind to the mushroom clouds that sometimes appeared in the sky - a sort of willful ignorance.  Unfortunately, this "willful ignorance" had its price on the people in the region. The radiation from all the tests spread into the population, creating adverse effects. Women in families would be a lot more likely to get cancer because of the radiation exposure. Today however, dangerous tests like that do not fly anymore.  Writers and activists like Terry Tempest Williams have contributed to these tests being stopped - with their rhetoric. Preventing any further harm to the public and generations to come.  Who knows if all those nuclear tests kept going on the Earth could only have radioactive animals left on it: from talking/singing beetles claiming they are “bigger than Jesus” to pink elephants that could just have easily been from "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."