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Day of Two Suns - U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders (Paperback, Open Market Ed)
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Day of Two Suns - U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders (Paperback, Open Market Ed)
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Loot Price R441
Discovery Miles 4 410
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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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