Under the cloud : the decades of nuclear testing / Richard L. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Richard L. (Richard Lee), 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--Testing.

Nuclear weapons.

Radioactive fallout--United States.

Radioactive fallout.

United States--History--1945-.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 547 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, 1986.

Contents:

II. The Beginning 11

Trinity 29

Hiroshima 39

Nagasaki 49

Fallout 58

Postwar 66

III. The Testing Begins 73

Ranger 83

The Race for the Super 107

Buster-Jangle 119

IV. Maneuvers 135

Tumbler-Snapper 137

Upshot-Knothole 157

Castle: Bravo 188

V. Watching the Bombs Go Off 195

The Soviets I: Bombs in the Kremlin 205

Hot Spots 209

Teapot 213

1956: The Year of Fallout 243

VI. Hot Dust, Hard Rain 249

Plumbbob 251

Hot Dust, Hard Rain 294

Fallout: The Questions 299

Hardtack I-II 305

Plowshare 311

VII. Accidents 315

Bombs Over Mars Bluff 317

Bombs Over Goldsboro 319

The Soviets II: Chelyabinsk 40 322

VIII. The Abyss 329

Khrushchev 331

Showdown 333

Novaya Zemlya 336

Deadly October 343

The Hot Years 351

IX. Confrontation 357

Deadly Rain 369

X. Evidence 377

XI. Epilogue: The Last Nuclear Weapon 391

Appendix A. The Radiation of Fallout 399

Appendix B. City List of Selected Trajectories 404

Appendix C. Maps of Fallout Trajectories 444

Appendix D. Fallout in Selected Cities from Operations / Tumbler-Snapper, Upshot-Knothole 473.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 485-529.

ISBN:

0029216206

OCLC:

13333365