Bombs Over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear Disaster

by Connie Goldsmith and Eoin Colfer

Book Overview

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 until 1958, the military detonated sixty-seven nuclear bombs over the region's Bikini and Enewetak Atolls. The twelfth bomb, called Bravo , became the world's first nuclear disaster. It sent a toxic cloud of radiation over Rongelap Atoll and other nearby inhabited islands. The testing was intended...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146771612X
• ISBN13: 9781467716123
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12