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Book Proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Conference on Selected Effects of a General War   Volume 2

Download or read book Proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Conference on Selected Effects of a General War Volume 2 written by United States. Defense Atomic Support Agency and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Selected Effects of a General War  2nd

Download or read book Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Selected Effects of a General War 2nd written by GENERAL ELECTRIC CO SANTA BARBARA CA DASA INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS CENTER. and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is a result of a second conference on the selected effects of a general war held at Princeton, New Jersey, 4-7 October 1967. Specific topics included in this particular conference were the effects of the 1954 hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean which resulted in the fallout contamination of Marshall Island natives and of the Japanese fishermen on the Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon); the ecological effects of nuclear tests in the Pacific regions; and the effects of the aircraft accident in Spain, in which nuclear weapons broke up, but did not explode ('Spanish Incident'). The conference was sponsored by the Defense Atomic Support Agency under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences. This volume is the second of a 3-volume series on this subject. The other two volumes have similar titles and are numbered DASA 2019-1 and DASA 2019-3.

Book Selected United States Government Publications

Download or read book Selected United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Consequential Damages of Nuclear War

Download or read book Consequential Damages of Nuclear War written by Barbara Rose Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics, government secrecy, human rights, military testing, and academic activism. The report, reproduced here with accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and related subjects.

Book Blown to Hell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Pincus
  • Publisher : Diversion Books
  • Release : 2021-11-02
  • ISBN : 1635768020
  • Pages : 523 pages

Download or read book Blown to Hell written by Walter Pincus and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist exposes the sixty-seven US nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands that decimated a people and their land. 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. In Blown to Hell, Pulitzer Prize–winnng journalist Walter Pincus tells for the first time the tragic story of the Marshallese people caught in the crosshairs of American nuclear testing. From John Anjain, a local magistrate of Rongelap Atoll who loses more than most; to the radiation-exposed crew of the Japanese fishing boat the Lucky Dragon; to Dr. Robert Conard, a Navy physician who realized the dangers facing the islanders and attempted to help them; to the Washington power brokers trying to keep the unthinkable fallout from public view . . . Blown to Hell tells the human story of America’s nuclear testing program. Displaced from the only homes they had known, the native tribes that inhabited the serene Pacific atolls for millennia before they became ground zero for America’s first thermonuclear detonations returned to homes despoiled by radiation—if they were lucky enough to return at all. Others were ripped from their ancestral lands and shuttled to new islands with little regard for how the new environment supported their way of life and little acknowledgement of all they left behind. But not even the disruptive relocations allowed the islanders to escape the fallout. Praise for Blown to Hell “A shocking account of the destruction wrought by atomic bomb testing in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958 . . . . Pincus makes a persuasive case that in “seeking a more powerful weapon for warfare, the U.S. unleashed death in several forms on peaceful Marshall Island people.” Readers will be appalled.” —Publishers Weekly “For more than half a century, Walter Pincus has been among our greatest reporters and most persistent truth-tellers. Blown to Hell is a story worthy of his talents—infuriating, heart-breaking, and utterly riveting.” —Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Liberation Trilogy

Book DASAIC Special Report

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  • Author : Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book DASAIC Special Report written by Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nukespeak

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  • Author : Stephen Hilgartner
  • Publisher : Random House (NY)
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Nukespeak written by Stephen Hilgartner and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1982 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the public relations efforts of the nuclear power industry and analyzes its use of euphemisms and confusing language in order to encourage the development of nuclear energy-Amazon.

Book Inhalation of Radioiodine from Fallout

Download or read book Inhalation of Radioiodine from Fallout written by Richard Cole and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late development of severe damage to the thyroid in most of the Marshallese children in the group on Rongelap Atoll most heavily exposed to fallout from the 1954 CASTLE BRAVO nuclear test has raised questions about the importance of radioiodine intake in sheltered opulations in the civil-defense context. As a first step in investigation of this problem, an evaluation was made of the nature and extent of the intake of radioiodine in the Marshall Islands, with emphasis on the possibility that inhalation was a major route of entry. The, on the basis of the literature on fallout phenomenology, an estimate of the extent and rate of volatilization of iodine from siliceous fallout particles was made. It was found that under certain circumstances significant thyroid doses could be the result of inhalation intake and that the use of blocking iodide as a countermeasure was indicated. The effectiveness and the possible side effects of blocking iodide are discussed, and recommendations for administration are made, together with cost estimates. (Modified author abstract).

Book Government Reports Announcements

Download or read book Government Reports Announcements written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U S  Government Research   Development Reports

Download or read book U S Government Research Development Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U  S  Government Research and Development Reports

Download or read book U S Government Research and Development Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Technical Abstract Bulletin

Download or read book Technical Abstract Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Government Reports Announcements   Index

Download or read book Government Reports Announcements Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 1774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: