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100 1 $aParsons, Keith M.,$d1952-$eauthor.
245 10 $aBombing the Marshall Islands :$ba Cold War tragedy /$cKeith M. Parsons, Robert A. Zaballa.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom ;$aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2017.
264 4 $c©2017
300 $ax, 239 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
520 8 $aDuring 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.
611 27 $aCold War (1945-1989)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01754978
650 0 $aNuclear weapons$zMarshall Islands$xTesting.
650 0 $aNuclear weapons$zUnited States$xTesting$xHistory.
650 0 $aNuclear weapons testing victims$zMarshall Islands.
650 0 $aNuclear weapons$xTesting$xPolitical aspects.
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650 7 $aNuclear weapons$xTesting$xPolitical aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01041018
650 7 $aNuclear weapons testing victims.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01041053
651 7 $aMarshall Islands.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01215147
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 $aZaballa, Robert A.,$eauthor.
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