Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing

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Two-Sixty Press, 1986 - 547 páginas
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").
 

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Acknowledgments
11
TRINITY
29
Hiroshima
39
Nagasaki
49
Fallout
58
Postwar
66
RANGER
83
The Race for the Super
107
PLUMBBOB
251
Hot Dust Hard Rain
294
HARDTACK III
305
PLOWSHARE
311
Bombs Over Mars Bluff
317
Khrushchev
331
Deadly October
343
The Hot Years
351

BUSTERJANGLE
119
TUMBLERSNAPPER
137
UPSHOTKNOTHOLE
157
BRAVO
188
Bombs in the Kremlin
205
ТЕАРОТ
213
The Year of Fallout
243
Deadly Rain
369
Appendix A The Radiation of Fallout
399
Maps of Fallout Trajectories
444
Fallout in Selected Cities from Operations
473
Notes
485
Index
531
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Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing
Richard L. Miller
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TítuloUnder the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing
AutorRichard Lee Miller
EditoraTwo-Sixty Press, 1986
ISBN0029216206, 9780029216200
Num. págs.547 páginas
  
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