Bombing the Marshall Islands : a Cold War tragedy /

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 Br...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Parsons, Keith M., 1952- (Author), Zaballa, Robert A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Nuclear weapons > Marshall Islands > Testing. Nuclear weapons > United States > Testing > History. Nuclear weapons testing victims > Marshall Islands. Nuclear weapons > Testing > Political aspects. Cold War.

Table of 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 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.