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Loading... Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politicsby A. Costandina Titus
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A very disturbing account of how much nuclear testing the US did with very little consideration of its citizens. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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On January 27, 1951, the first atomic weapon was detonated over a section of desert known as Frenchman Flat in southern Nevada, providing dramatic evidence of the Nevada Test Site's beginnings. Fifty years later, author A. Costandina Titus reviews contemporary nuclear policy issues concerning the continued viability of that site for weapons testing. Titus has updated her now-classic study of atomic testing with fifteen years of political and cultural history, from the mid-1980s Reagan-Gorbachev nuclear standoff to the authorization of the Nevada Test Site Research Center, a Desert Research Institute facility scheduled to open in 2001. In this second edition of Bombs in the Backyard, Titus deftly covers the post-Cold War transformation of American atomic policy as well as our overarching cultural interest in all matters atomic, making this a must-read for anyone interested in atomic policy and politics. No library descriptions found. |
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