Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing

Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing

Under The Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing
eBook ISBN: 978-1881043-97-3
Original softcover ISBN:
From Library Journal
In the 1950s and 1960s, over 100 above-ground atomic bombs were exploded in the Nevada desert. Miller gives us absolutely arresting accounts of most of them. He describes the goals, the explosion, and the yield, and includes fascinating details, many times from contemporary accounts by news reporters, bomb droppers, and others. Miller saves most of the detail, interestingly given, for descriptions of the paths of the nuclear clouds and the locations and character of the fallout all over the country. He deals extensively with cover-ups relating to fallout effects on humans and animals. Supplementing his dramatic chronicles are appendixes and maps that summarize the tracks of selected bomb clouds, with listings of the communities affected by each test. This in-depth and readable history of atomic testing in the United States is highly recommended. Daniel LaRossa, Connetquot P.L., Bohemia, N.Y.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the 1986 hard cover edition of this title.
Review
"The greatest virtue of Under The Cloud is that it makes nuclear weapons tests personal events, impossible to forget by those who participated in them and forgotten only with difficulty by those who come to understand that all of us have been unwilling and unwitting participants."-Gerald E. Marsh -- Office of Arms Control and Defense Sciences at Argonne National Laboratory and co-author of Born Secret: The H-Bomb, the Progressive Case and National Security

Richard Miller's account of United States and Soviet efforts to develop the bomb and the history of nuclear testing in the U.S. from the first bomb up to the abolishing of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1974 is outstanding." -- The Christian Science Monitor

Richmond Virginia Times-Dispatch: :"Drawing his material from government files, Miller gives a thorough and formal look at the key events and the little-known side effects of all that was taking place. . The material is enough to make the story as fascinating as it is chilling." -- Robert Merritt, Richmond VA Times-Dispatch

Why then should this book be published at this time? Perhaps it is part of the Soviet-sponsored campaign to stop all nuclear tests, similar to the "ban the bomb" propaganda of the early 1960s." -- Dixie Lee Ray, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission --This text refers to the original Macmillan publication circa 1986.
Country USA
Brand Free Press
Manufacturer Free Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780029216200
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Free Press
Manufacturer	Free Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780029216200
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing

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