WINIFRED, Montana — Ed Butcher, 78, tied up his horse, kicked mud off his cowboy boots and walked into his house for dinner. He’d been working on the ranch for most of the day, miles away from cellphone range. “What did I miss?” he asked his wife, Pam, as he turned their TV to cable news. “What part of the world is falling apart today?”
The nuclear missile next door
What it’s like to live with a bomb stronger than 20 Hiroshimas in a time of rising worldwide tensions.
By Eli Saslow
April 17, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EDT