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The Mushroom Cloud and the Downwinders

Cover Image By Gurlie Pendergrass and Lorelle Nelson
Our Price: $10.00
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Our Item Code: mush
Postage Code: book1

72 Pages, Trade Paperback
Vorgelet Futurum
Related listings: Atomic History
Date: 1987   ISBN: None
Country of Origin: Denmark
    Added to Catalog: 12/15/96 (Revised 12/96)
    WIRT: 54444343


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 Our Review Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate 
Credibility
5
Very High
Research Value
4
High
Cultural Interest
4
High
Visual Information
4
High
Style
4
Stylish
Silliness
3
Moderate
Wow Factor
4
Surprising
Bargain
3
Moderate
Explanation of Ratings
Credibility = Very High: In general, this catagory is a rating of the author's intellectual discipline and the strength of his argument (which are very high), not the veracity of his claims (which could be false in spite of the strong argument).

This is the best book we've found on the above-ground atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site. Written for students of English, this book recalls the atomic era with a clarity not found in the American press. (As a bonus, sidebars translate difficult English words into Danish.) Available nowhere else in the U.S.!

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Acknowledgements

The Day We Bombed Utah by John G. Fuller


Table of Contents

  • Preface
    1. The Mushroom Cloud
      • Map: Nevada Test Site and Surrounding Population Centers
      • Introduction: Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada / Human Effects of Nuclear Testing (0.9/0.9 n.s.)
      • Warning (0.7 n.s.)
      • A-Test Won't Hurt Vegas (0.4 n.s.)
      • Nevada Blasts Data Secret (0.9 n.s.)
      • Cartoon "The Mushroom That's Deadly for the Toad"
      • Our Atomic Alarm Clock (1.1 n.s.)
      • An Early Bird Bomb Watcher (1.3 n.s.)
      • Sketch: The Flash of Light Hits Mexico .
      • Living Under the Mushroom Cloud (3.4 n.s.)
      • Watching the Bombs Go Off (3.1 n.s.)
      • Map: A Tourist Guide to Atom Bomb Watching
    2. Atomic Maneuvers
      • Sketch: First Atomic Shell .
      • Seven Thousand Yards (5.5 n.s.)
      • Nine Survive Atom Test Blast (1.9 n.s.)
      • Two Miles from Ground Zero (0.8 n.s.)
    3. Selling the Bomb
      • The AEC and the Public (1.6 n.s.)
      • Cartoon: "Can This Be 'The Thing'?"
      • Operation 'Doom Town' (3.7 n.s.)
      • The Valley Where the Tall Mushrooms Grow (2.6 n.s.)
      • Sketch: A-Bomb Blows Some Dust Our Way
      • Utah Town 'Blacked Out' (1.5 n.s.)
      • A Message to People Who Live Near Nevada Test Site (1.2 n.s.)
      • Nevada Atom Tests Not Harmful: AEC (2.1 n.s.)
      • Cartoon: " ... maybe my brother knows somebody"
      • Atomic Tests in Nevada (4.8 n.s.) .
      • Cartoon: "I'm Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" .
    4. The Downwinders
      • Map: High Fallout Exposure - Tri-State Area
      • Introduction (0.9 n.s.)
      • The Day We Bombed Utah (9.1 n.s.)
      • The Downwinders / The Cancers (1.0/0.8 n.s.)
      • Citizens Call (1.2 n.s.)
      • Gloria Gregerson's Testimony (6.4 n.s.)
      • Growing Up With the Bomb: A Downwinder Remembers (4.1 n.s.)
      • People 1, Feds 0 (1.7 n.s.)
      • Cartoon: "The Nevada Test Site, Sometime in the 1950's"
      • Keep Nuclear Fallout Ruling in Perspective (3.3 n.s.)
      • Down With King George (2.3 n.s.)
    5. Atomic Veterans
      • Bomb Test Gls' Leukemia Higher (0.9 n.s.)
      • Compensation at Hand for 'atomic Vets' (1.6 n.s.)
      • Cartoon: "VA. Nuclear Waste Dumpster"
    6. Epilogue
      • Mornin'on the Desert (0.8 n.s.)
      • Cartoon: "Ditto"
    7. Technical Appendix
      • When an Atom Bomb Explodes (0.8 n.s.)
      • Types of Radiation (0.9 n.s.)
      • Average Personal Radiation Dose (1.0 n.s.)
      • Chronology of Nuclear Weapons Testing (0.7 n.s.)
    8. Suggestions for Discussion and Written Work
      • Footnote: "American and British Spelling"
      • Footnote: "Films "

  • Promotional Material from the Publisher

    "The Mushroom Cloud and the Downwinders" is an anthology designed for use in English teaching at all levels of the Danish gymnasium and HF, and in Handelskolen from Level III.

    Through its many short texts and through the cartoons, photos, maps etc. the book tells the story of the above ground nuclear testing in Nevada in the 1950s and its terrible consequences.

    This is the story of patriotism, of the curious bomb-watchers, of the soldiers who stood just 2,000 yards from a nuclear blast, of the downwinders, of the reassurlng bureaucrats and of the cancers.

    Here you will find tests of human political and scientific interest.

    The book also has an historical perspective, in that it follows the story from the anti-communist fervour of the McCarthy period through to the greater environmental consciousness of the present day, when the full price of what was done in the 50s is becoming visible.

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