Under the Cloud: the Decades of Nuclear Testing

Name: Under the Cloud: the Decades of Nuclear Testing
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ISBN: 9780029216200

ISBN-10: 0029216206

ISBN-13: 9780029216200

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard L. Miller

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In "a chilling documentary history of America's above-ground nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s, Miller takes on the subject and universalizes it, at the same time giving it the flavor of a Dos Passos novel" ("Kirkus Reviews").

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 548
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prelude


The Beginning


Trinity


Hiroshima


Nagasaki


Fallout


Postwar


The Testing Begins


Ranger


The Race for the Super


Buster-Jangle


Maneuvers


Tumbler-Snapper


Upshot-Knothole


Castle: Bravo


Watching the Bombs Go Off


The Soviets I: Bombs in the Kremlin


Hot Spots


Teapot


1956: The Year of Fallout


Hot Dust, Hard Rain


Plumbbob


Hot Dust, Hard Rain


Fallout: The Questions


Hardtack I-II


Plowshare


Accidents


Bombs Over Mars Bluff


Bombs Over Goldsboro


The Soviets II: Chelyabinsk 40


The Abyss


Khrushchev


Showdown


Novaya Zemlya


Deadly October


The Hot Years


Confrontation


Deadly Rain


Evidence


Epilogue: The Last Nuclear Weapon


The Radiation of Fallout


City List of Selected Trajectories


Maps of Fallout Trajectories


Fallout in Selected Cities from Operations


Notes


Index