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Day of Two Suns
U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders
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1998
Summary
Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. In 1959, this scattering of coral atolls was again chosen as the testing site for a new generation of weapons—long-range missiles fired in the U.S. Then in 1984 a missile fired from California was intercepted by one from Kwajalein atoll: SDI, or Star Wars, was declared a realizable dream. As military researcher Owen Wilkes has noted: "If we could shut down the Pacific Missile Range, we could cut off half the momentum of the nuclear race." This is the story of the preparations for war which every day impinge on tire lives of Pacific Islanders caught on the cutting edge of the nuclear arms race. It is the story of a displaced people contaminated by nuclear fallout, forcibly resettled as their own islands become uninhabitable, and reduced to lives of poverty, ill-health, and dependence. It is also a stirring account of the Marshall Islanders themselves, of their resilience and protest, and of their attempts to seek redress in the courts. It is a shocking and timely study.
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Edition
1/1998
Copyright Year
1998
ISBN-Print
978-0-941533-73-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4617-3270-9
Publisher
New Amsterdam Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
299
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Preface to American Edition No access
1: Introduction No access
2: Invaders: 'Missionaries and Soldiers-Hand in Hand' No access
3: The First Generation of Testing: Radiation Clouds over Rongelap No access
4: Leaving Rongelap No access
5: The Second Generation of Testing: Kwajalein-Refugees and Protesters No access
6: Kwajalein-Base Living No access
7: 'Dealing with the Outside: Keeping What is Ours': Women's Experiences of Colonialism No access
8: Solomon's Solution: US Policy in Micronesia No access
9: Cold War in the Pacific No access
10: 'Dump it in Tokyo, Test it in Paris, Store it in Washington. . .' No access
11: Pacific Initiatives No access
12: 'When Will we Seize the World Around us with our Freedom?' No access
I: Chronology of Testing and Displacement No access
II: The Organisation of Marshallese Society No access
III: Glossary of Abbreviations and Nuclear Terms No access
IV: Campaigning Guides-Books and Videos No access
V: Useful Addresses No access
VI: The People's Charter for a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific No access
