How Long Is the Night

Suspense - Radio’s Outstanding Theater of Thrills · Aug 3, 2026 · 29m

Originally Aired: October 13, 1952

Suspense #482, "How Long Is the Night," presents the harrowing true story of a man stranded alone on a desolate Pacific island in the aftermath of atomic bomb testing. Warner, a military photographer, recounts the weeks he and his team spent documenting the devastating effects of nuclear tests at Eniwetok Atoll. Along with cameramen Joe Harrison and Bert Picelli, Warner has witnessed the islands transformed into a chain of black, radioactive ruins where nothing can survive. The smell of death hangs over the water and land as they photograph the scorched…