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Day of Two Suns

- U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders
Af: Jane Dibblin Engelsk Paperback

Day of Two Suns

- U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders
Af: Jane Dibblin Engelsk Paperback
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Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. In 1959, this scattering of coral atolls was again chosen as the testing site for a new generation of weapons—long-range missiles fired in the U.S. Then in 1984 a missile fired from California was intercepted by one from Kwajalein atoll: SDI, or Star Wars, was declared a realizable dream. As military researcher Owen Wilkes has noted: "If we could shut down the Pacific Missile Range, we could cut off half the momentum of the nuclear race." This is the story of the preparations for war which every day impinge on tire lives of Pacific Islanders caught on the cutting edge of the nuclear arms race. It is the story of a displaced people contaminated by nuclear fallout, forcibly resettled as their own islands become uninhabitable, and reduced to lives of poverty, ill-health, and dependence. It is also a stirring account of the Marshall Islanders themselves, of their resilience and protest, and of their attempts to seek redress in the courts. It is a shocking and timely study.
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Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. In 1959, this scattering of coral atolls was again chosen as the testing site for a new generation of weapons—long-range missiles fired in the U.S. Then in 1984 a missile fired from California was intercepted by one from Kwajalein atoll: SDI, or Star Wars, was declared a realizable dream. As military researcher Owen Wilkes has noted: "If we could shut down the Pacific Missile Range, we could cut off half the momentum of the nuclear race." This is the story of the preparations for war which every day impinge on tire lives of Pacific Islanders caught on the cutting edge of the nuclear arms race. It is the story of a displaced people contaminated by nuclear fallout, forcibly resettled as their own islands become uninhabitable, and reduced to lives of poverty, ill-health, and dependence. It is also a stirring account of the Marshall Islanders themselves, of their resilience and protest, and of their attempts to seek redress in the courts. It is a shocking and timely study.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 318
ISBN-13: 9780941533836
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0941533832
Kategori: Våbenforhandling og kontrol
Udg. Dato: 21 jun 1998
Længde: 65mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 219mm
Forlag: New Amsterdam Books
Oplagsdato: 21 jun 1998
Forfatter(e): Jane Dibblin
Forfatter(e) Jane Dibblin

Kategori Våbenforhandling og kontrol

ISBN-13 9780941533836

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 318

Udgave

Længde 65mm

Bredde 140mm

Højde 219mm

Udg. Dato 21 jun 1998

Oplagsdato 21 jun 1998

Forlag New Amsterdam Books