Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear TestingIn "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"). |
Contents
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 |
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