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Day of Two Suns
U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders
by Jane Dibblin🔗 Day of Two Suns ~ Click Here 🔗
- Author: Jane Dibblin
- Release date: April 21, 1998
- ISBN: 9780941533836 (0941533832)
- Genres: history
- Format: paperback, 318 pages
- Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
- Language: english
About The Book
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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