Justice Downwind: America's Atomic Testing Program in the 1950s

by Howard Ball

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Based on interviews with all parties and on extensive archival research into the files of the Atomic Energy Commission, Justice Downwind tells the astonishing story of how the United States exploded atomic weapons on its own soil between the years 1951 and 1963 as part of a postwar military nuclear testing program.
Concerned with the hazards of cancer and radioactive fallout, 1,100 citizens living downwind of the Nevada Testing Site, in an effort...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195053575

ISBN13:9780195053579

Release Date:April 1988

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:314 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 7.9"

Related Subjects

Americas Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting History Nuclear Politics & Social Sciences Safety & First Aid Social Sciences State & Local Weapons & Warfare

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