"Shigeko Niimoto, left, and the Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto drinking coffee at Mitchel Air Field on Hempstead, Long Island, before heading to New York City. Images like this promoted the humanitarian dimension of the project and thus assuaged the State Department's fears that Cousins and Tanimoto were using the Maidens as antinuclear propaganda. Photograph taken May 9, 1955, (c) Bettmann/Corbis."

From: Serlin, David. Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.