Bombs at Bikini
Author | : United States. Joint Task Force One |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Joint Task Force One |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Joint Task Force One |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William A. Shurcliff |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781015548053 |
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Author | : William A. Shurcliff |
Publisher | : Alpha Edition |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2020-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789354219245 |
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Author | : Jonathan M. Weisgall |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Weisgall (law, Georgetown U.) is the legal counsel for the people of Bikini and provides the first non-government account of the two atomic bomb tests on the Pacific island in 1946. He thinks that they were not a good idea, and argues that the government knew that at the time. He was also the executive producer of the film Radio Bikini. Includes lots of photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1996-11-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309175178 |
In 1946, approximately 40,000 U.S. military personnel participated in Operation CROSSROADS, an atmospheric nuclear test that took place at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Congress passed a law directing the Veterans Administration to determine whether there were any long-term adverse health effects associated with exposure to ionizing radiation from the detonation of nuclear devices. This book contains the results of an extensive epidemiological study of the mortality of participants compared with a similar group of nonparticipants. Topics of discussion include a breakdown of the study rationale; an overview of other studies of veteran participants in nuclear tests; and descriptions of Operation CROSSROADS, data sources for the study, participant and comparison cohorts, exposure details, mortality ascertainment, and findings and conclusions.
Author | : Walter Pincus |
Publisher | : Diversion Books |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1635768020 |
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist exposes the sixty-seven US nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that decimated a people and their land. The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands—an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon that preserved the peace of the post-war years. It was here—with the 1954 Castle Bravo test over Bikini Atoll—that America executed its largest nuclear detonation, a thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. And it was here that a native people became unwilling test subjects in the first large scale study of nuclear radiation fallout when the ashes rained down on powerless villagers, contaminating the land they loved and forever changing a way of life. In Blown to Hell, Pulitzer Prize–winnng journalist Walter Pincus tells for the first time the tragic story of the Marshallese people caught in the crosshairs of American nuclear testing. From John Anjain, a local magistrate of Rongelap Atoll who loses more than most; to the radiation-exposed crew of the Japanese fishing boat the Lucky Dragon; to Dr. Robert Conard, a Navy physician who realized the dangers facing the islanders and attempted to help them; to the Washington power brokers trying to keep the unthinkable fallout from public view . . . Blown to Hell tells the human story of America’s nuclear testing program. Displaced from the only homes they had known, the native tribes that inhabited the serene Pacific atolls for millennia before they became ground zero for America’s first thermonuclear detonations returned to homes despoiled by radiation—if they were lucky enough to return at all. Others were ripped from their ancestral lands and shuttled to new islands with little regard for how the new environment supported their way of life and little acknowledgement of all they left behind. But not even the disruptive relocations allowed the islanders to escape the fallout. Praise for Blown to Hell “A shocking account of the destruction wrought by atomic bomb testing in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958 . . . . Pincus makes a persuasive case that in “seeking a more powerful weapon for warfare, the U.S. unleashed death in several forms on peaceful Marshall Island people.” Readers will be appalled.” —Publishers Weekly “For more than half a century, Walter Pincus has been among our greatest reporters and most persistent truth-tellers. Blown to Hell is a story worthy of his talents—infuriating, heart-breaking, and utterly riveting.” —Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Liberation Trilogy
Author | : James P. Delgado |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Atomic bomb |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James P. Delgado |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Deserted homes and crumbling concrete bunkers that remain on the atoll itself, the ghost fleet of Operation Crossroads is an archaeological legacy from the beginning of the atomic age.