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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Parsons, Keith M., author.     Zaballa, Robert A., author.     Subjects     Cold War (1945-1989)     Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Testing.     Nuclear weapons -- United States -- Testing -- History.     Nuclear weapons testing victims -- Marshall Islands.     Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Political aspects.     Cold War     Nuclear weapons -- Testing.     Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Political aspects.     Nuclear weapons testing victims.     Kernwaffentest     Marshall Islands     United States     Marshallinseln     Browse Catalog     by author:      Parsons, Keith M., author.      Zaballa, Robert A., author.       by title:      Bombing the Marshall...         MARC Display

Bombing the Marshall Islands : a Cold War tragedy / Keith M. Parsons, Robert A. Zaballa. by Parsons, Keith M., author., Zaballa, Robert A., author. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017. Description:  x, 239 pages ; 24 cm Contents:  Introduction: Sunrise in the west; snow in the tropics -- Operation Crossroads: the world's first nuclear disaster -- The coming of the "super" -- Runaway bomb -- The victims of Castle Bravo -- Monsters and movements: the cultural "fallout" of nuclear testing -- Bikini postmortem I: Public perceptions and official obsessions -- Bikini postmortem II: Nuclear policy and nuclear tests -- Epilogue: back to Bikini? -- Appendix One: Ultimate weapons -- Appendix Two: Radiation exposure, dosage, and its biomedical effects. Summary:  During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, particularly Castle Bravo, the largest one, had tragic consequences, including the irradiation of innocent people and the permanent displacement of many native Marshallese. Keith M. Parsons and Robert Zaballa tell the story of the development and testing of thermonuclear weapons and the effects of these tests on their victims and on the popular and intellectual culture. These events are also situated in their Cold War context and explained in terms of the prevailing hopes, fears, and beliefs of that age. In particular, the narrative highlights the obsessions and priorities of top American officials, such as Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 623.4 Par 2017 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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