Bombing the Marshall Islands - A Cold War Tragedy

A narrative history of the nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958.

List of contents

Introduction. Sunrise in the West: snow in the tropics; 1. Operation crossroads: the World's first nuclear disaster; 2. The coming of the 'Super'; 3. Runaway bomb; 4. The victims of Bravo; 5. Monsters and movements: the cultural 'Fallout' of nuclear testing; 6. Bikini postmortem I: public perceptions and official obsessions; 7. Bikini postmortem II: nuclear policy and nuclear tests; Epilogue. Back to Bikini?; Appendix 1. Ultimate weapons; Appendix 2. Radiation exposure, dosage, and its biomedical effects; Notes; Bibliography.

About the author

Keith M. Parsons, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, has won awards for both teaching and research. He has published in diverse fields including the philosophy of science, the history of science, the philosophy of religion, and logic and critical thinking.Robert Zaballa is a physicist specializing in nuclear physics. His areas of research include models of excited nuclei, high energy heavy ion collisions, and quantum space-time. In addition to teaching physics at the college level, he is currently employed as a radiographer at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta.

Summary

During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of thermonuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. By telling this fascinating but disturbing story, Keith M. Parsons and Robert Zaballa illustrate what happens when ultimate power falls into the hands of very frightened people.

Product details

• Authors: Keith M. Parsons, Keith M. (University of Houston) Zaballa Parsons, Keith M. (University of Houston-Clear Lak Parsons, Keith M. (University of Houston-Clear Lake) Parsons, Keith M. Zaballa Parsons, Parsons Keith M., Robert Zaballa, Robert A. Zaballa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107697904
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69790-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Science, Nuclear weapons, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Marshall Islands