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

by Howard Ball

Book Overview

This is the astonishing story of how the United States exploded atomic weapons on its own soil.
For over a decade, from 1951 to 1963, the U.S. government used the Nevada Test Site to detonate above-ground atomic bombs as part of its postwar military nuclear testing program. "Only" 100,000 people lived downwind of the test site, for the bombs were set off only when the wind was blowing in an easterly direction, that, away from California of Las...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195036727
• ISBN13: 9780195036725
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"