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Pincus, Walter, 1932- author.
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Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Testing.
Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History.
Marshall Islands -- History -- 20th century.
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Blown to hell : Amer...
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Blown to hell : America's deadly betrayal of the Marshall Islanders / Walter Pincus.
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Pincus, Walter, 1932- author.
[New York] : Diversion Books, 2021.
Subjects
Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Testing.
Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History.
Marshall Islands -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781635768015 (hardcover) :
1635768012 (hardcover)
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xv, 380 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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First Diversion Books edition.
Contents:
Prologue -- Part I: The first tests. In the beginning -- The first fallout -- We did not rest -- Service rivalry at crossroads -- The press and the VIPs -- Test Able -- Able's aftermath -- The media story I -- Baker test preparations -- The Baker shot -- Baker's aftermath -- Cleanup attempts -- The media story II -- The Marshallese -- More cleanup -- Lessons from crossroads -- New tests, new devices -- More new tests -- A race to the H-bomb -- Preparing for the Bravo test -- Bravo detonation -- Immediate aftermath -- Evacuation -- Keep it secret -- Part II: Long-term problems. Secret's out -- Tales from the Unlucky Dragon -- Washington responds -- Making things worse -- Out in the Pacific -- Settlement -- Tell the public -- Return home to Rongelap -- Medical issues and money payoff on Rongelap -- Fallout and truth -- Death comes home to Rongelap -- Rongelap departure -- Clean up of Bikini and Enewetak -- Marshall Islands independence -- The atolls updated -- Rongelap today -- Epilogue.
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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.
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