Keith M. Parsons (University of Houston-Clear Lake), Robert A. Zaballa

Bombing the Marshall Islands

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781107697904
• ISBN-10: 1107697905
• Artikelnr.: 47778615

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.