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In August 2017, at the height of animosities with the then-Trump administration, North Korea’s Strategic Forces threatened to make “an enveloping fire” near Gaum with Hwasong-12 missiles.

Tina Cordova, a cancer survivor and co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, said she has been working on the legislation for months with other residents of places affected by radiation, from Indigenous communities in New Mexico to Gaum.

There was a pause, and a buzz, and then the handsome man called Gaum laughed and lifted up his beer-tankard.

Gaum gave me an airy little nod, as if applauding my quickness to reply: a conspirator’s nod.

“How do we know that he didn’t?” said Gaum, smiling.