Nutley High School

Dropping the big one (Naples Daily News)

1939 was the year Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning that an atomic bomb was possible. It was also the year Rick Nolan was born. The young man growing up in Nutley, N.J. who is an active Marco Islander today experienced the atomic age up close and personal when he served in the U.S. Navy during the hydrogen bomb tests at Christmas Island in the central …