Bibliograph

Blown to hell, America's deadly betrayal of the Marshall Islanders, Walter Pincus

Type

Label

Blown to hell, America's deadly betrayal of the Marshall Islanders, Walter Pincus

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blown to hell

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1276790005

Responsibility statement

Walter Pincus

Sub title

America's deadly betrayal of the Marshall Islanders

Summary

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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