Earle L. Reynolds, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Earle L. Reynolds

Anti-nuclear weapons activist

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1910

Date of Death: 11-Jan-1998

Profession: anthropologist, explorer, peace activist, anti-nuclear activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Earle L.
Reynolds (October 18, 1910 – January 11, 1998) was an anthropologist, educator, author, Quaker, and peace activist.
He was sent to Hiroshima by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1951 to study the effects of the first atomic bomb on the growth and development of exposed children.
His professional discoveries concerning the dangers of radiation later moved Reynolds into a life of anti-nuclear activism.
In 1958 he sailed with his wife Barbara, two of his three children and a Japanese yachtsman in the Phoenix of Hiroshima, a ketch he had designed himself, into the American nuclear testing zone in the Pacific.
In 1961 the family sailed to the USSR to protest Soviet nuclear testing.
During the Vietnam War Reynolds and his second wife Akie sailed the Phoenix to Haiphong to deliver humanitarian and medical aid to victims of American bombing.