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Bomb Shelter

GUAM

ERIK DE CASTRO/REUTERS

Asan, Guam— Children sit on a World War II–era torpedo at Asan Beach Park on August 11. The American territory is caught up in the increasingly hostile rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea as Washington reacted to the news that Pyongyang has produced a nuclear weapon that can fit into a long-range missile. After the North’s latest missile test, President Donald Trump threatened Pyongyang with “fire and fury,” and that country responded with its own threat: to strike near Guam, home to thousands of U.S. troops. The island’s governor told Guamanians not to worry, but one resident told the Associated Press, “I’m…a little panicked.”

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