Justice Downwind: America's Atomic Testing Program in the 1950s

by Howard Ball

Book Overview

Based on interviews with all parties and on extensive archival research into the files of the Atomic Energy Commission, Justice Downwind tells the astonishing story of how the United States exploded atomic weapons on its own soil between the years 1951 and 1963 as part of a postwar military nuclear testing program.
Concerned with the hazards of cancer and radioactive fallout, 1,100 citizens living downwind of the Nevada Testing Site, in an effort...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195053575
• ISBN13: 9780195053579
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.9"