Victoria Moore
Victoria Moore is an artist, author and activist whose entire life has been influenced by atomic and thermonuclear testing in the Pacific Proving Grounds. She is the daughter of US Naval Chief Petty Officer Moore on the Command ship USS ESTES, designed specifically for the Joint Task Forces, where he served from her departure to the Marshall Islands in 1951 until his forced early retirement in 1962 due to medical complications of repeated ionizing radiation exposures. Victoria was conceived in 1955 when she was considered quite “hot” from protracted and repeated exposures both Op IVY & CASTLE. She was deemed an ‘at risk’ pregnancy and birth. She was somewhat monitored as a child and often in the company of her father on bases surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area. Born under the veil of silence in a “Q Cleared” officer’s home required strict protocols and mostly operated on a ‘need to know’ basis. At 23, Victoria required a full hysterectomy due to ill-defined organ failures.