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Language: en
Pages: 92
Authors: Connie Goldsmith
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In 1946, as part of the Cold War arms race, the US military launched a program to test nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean. From 1946 unt
Operation Crossroads
Language: en
Pages: 488
Authors: Jonathan M. Weisgall
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: US Naval Institute Press

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Weisgall (law, Georgetown U.) is the legal counsel for the people of Bikini and provides the first non-government account of the two atomic bomb tests on the Pa
The Bomb
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Pages: 212
Authors: Theodore Taylor
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
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In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, 14-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate e
Blown to Hell
Language: en
Pages: 523
Authors: Walter Pincus
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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 importan
Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Institute of Medicine
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-11-11 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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In 1946, approximately 40,000 U.S. military personnel participated in Operation CROSSROADS, an atmospheric nuclear test that took place at Bikini Atoll in the M