The Baneberry disaster : a generation of atomic fallout / Larry C. Johns, with Alan R. Johns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johns, Larry Charles, 1944- author.

Johns, Alan R., author.

Series:

Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roberts, Harley.

Nunamaker, Bill.

Baneberry Nuclear Test, Nev., 1970--Trials, litigation, etc.

Baneberry Nuclear Test, Nev., 1970.

Nuclear weapons--Testing--Law and legislation--United States.

Nuclear weapons.

Wrongful death--United States.

Wrongful death.

Nuclear weapons--Testing--Law and legislation.

United States.

Genre:

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 210 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2017]

Summary:

The Baneberry Disaster covers the calamitous December 1970 Baneberry underground nuclear test that pumped nearly 7 million curies of radiation into the atmosphere, caused the suspension of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site for six months, and whose radioactive cloud exposed 86 test-site workers to radiation, two of whom died of leukemia less than four years later. The authors are attorneys from Las Vegas who spent 25 years pursuing a lawsuit for the victims at Baneberry. The story begins in 1971, just after the Baneberry test vented, and takes the reader through the years leading up to the 41-day trial in 1979, and the multiple appeals following the trial. It discusses the claims and lawsuits filed by others exposed to atomic testing, and the congressional investigations that led to the enactment of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in 1990. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 To the Dark Tower: January 16, 1979 7

2 Thar She Blows: December 18, 1970 11

3 The Luck of the Draw 23

4 The Bulldog: April 1971 30

5 The Georgiadis Curse: October-December 1971 33

6 The King Can Do No Wrong 37

7 We're Here to Help You: January 1973-February 1974 46

8 A Ray of Hope 49

9 The Ides of March, 1974 54

10 Cracking the Shell of Secrecy 62

11 Tell That Lawyer to Go to Hell 66

12 The Second Man 76

13 A Hobson's Choice 79

14 GI Joe and the Smoky Vets 85

15 Dr. Alice Stewart, Éminence Grise 89

16 Was It Really an Accident? 111

17 Murphy's Law 119

18 To the Rescue 124

19 The Fault Is in Ourselves 127

20 No Harm, No Foul 130

21 Occam's Razor 135

22 Nickeling and Diming Them to Death 145

23 Give 'Em the Old Razzle-Dazzle 152

24 Dr. Evans's Marvelous Cluster Theory 157

25 Emptying the AEC Laboratories 165

26 Not with a Bang But a Whimper 171

27 Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Johns, Larry Charles, 1944- Baneberry disaster.

ISBN:

9781943859450

1943859450

OCLC:

971893070