U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders
by
Jane Dibblin
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
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...