David J. Bradley

{{Short description|American politician (1915–2008)}}

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| birth_date = February 22, 1915

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| death_date = January 7, 2008

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| nationality = American

| education = Harvard Medical School

| occupation = Writer

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| party = Democratic

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David John Bradley (February 22, 1915 – January 7, 2008) was an American writer, surgeon, politician and champion skier.{{cite web | title = U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum | url = http://skihall.com/hall-of-famers/david-bradley/ | access-date = March 31, 2019}}

His best-selling 1948 book No Place to Hide, a memoir of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapon explosions.{{cite book |last=Bradley |first=David |title=No Place to Hide |url=https://archive.org/details/noplacetohide00brad|url-access=registration |year=1948 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston }}

Bradley was elected as a Democrat to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, serving 1955–59 and 1973–75.{{cite web | last = Fox | first = Margalit | title = David Bradley, 92, author, Antinuclear Advocate, Champion Skier and State Legislator, Is Dead | work = The New York Times | date = January 30, 2009 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/arts/30bradley.html}}