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Day of two suns - US nuclear testing and the pacific islanders (1988)
| Author | Jane Dibblin |
| Date | 1988 |
| Classification | 4.26.4.00/05 (PACIFIC - US TESTING AREA) |
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From the publication:
Between 1946 and 1958, the US 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 US. Then in 1984 a missile fired from California was intercepted by one from Kwajelein atoll: SDI, or Star Wars, was declared a realisable 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 arms race.' This is the story of the preparations for war which every day impinge on the 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. Drawing widely on the experiences of the Marshall Islanders themselves, it is also a stirring account of their resilience and protest, of their attempts to obtain redress in the US courts, and of the efforts of their supporters to sustain their struggle. It is a shocking and timely study.
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