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Author Pincus, Walter, 1932- author.

Title Blown to hell : America's deadly betrayal of the Marshall Islanders / Walter Pincus.

Publication Info. [New York] : Diversion Books, 2021.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  623.451 PINCUS    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  355.0217 PINCUS    Check Shelf
Edition First Diversion Books edition.
Description xv, 380 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
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.
Subject Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Testing.
Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History.
Marshall Islands -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons. (OCoLC)fst01040971
Nuclear weapons -- Testing. (OCoLC)fst01041006
Marshall Islands. (OCoLC)fst01215147
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781635768015 (hardcover)
1635768012 (hardcover)
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