Author: Dennis PaulsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Voices of Survival in the Nuclear Age
Author: Dennis PaulsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Voices of Survival in the Nuclear Age
Author: Dennis PaulsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Voices from Chernobyl
Author: Светлана АлексиевичPublisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
Sanity and Survival in the Nuclear Age
Author: Jerome David FrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Survival and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Author: Laurence W. BeilensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Survival in the nuclear age
Author: William Fontaine ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Hanford Plaintiffs
Author: Trisha T. PritikinPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700629041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
For more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production. For those who lived in the vicinity, many of them families of Hanford workers, the consequences soon became apparent as rates of illness and death steadily climbed—despite repeated assurances from the Atomic Energy Commission that the facility posed no threat. Trisha T. Pritikin, who has battled a lifetime of debilitating illness to become a lawyer and advocate for her fellow “downwinders,” tells the devastating story of those who were harmed in Hanford’s wake and, seeking answers and justice, were subjected to yet more suffering. At the center of The Hanford Plaintiffs are the oral histories of twenty-four people who joined In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, the class-action suit that sought recognition of, and recompense for, the grievous injury knowingly caused by Hanford. Radioactive contamination of American communities was not uncommon during the wartime Manhattan Project, nor during the Cold War nuclear buildup that followed. Pritikin interweaves the stories of people poisoned by Hanford with a parallel account of civilians downwind of the Nevada atomic test site, who suffer from identical radiogenic diseases. Against the heartrending details of personal illness and loss and, ultimately, persistence in the face of a legal system that protects the government on all fronts and at all costs, The Hanford Plaintiffs draws a damning picture of the failure of the US Congress and the Judiciary to defend the American public and to adequately redress a catastrophic wrong. Documenting the legal, medical, and human cost of one community’s struggle for justice, this book conveys in clear and urgent terms the damage done to ordinary Americans in the name of business, progress, and patriotism.
Surviving the Nuclear Age
Author: Canadian Institute for International Peace and SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This bibliography covers the period from 1945 to 1983, with an emphasis on 1976 to 1983, and includes references to books and periodicals only. It attempts to be comprehensive in all aspects of nuclear weapons and all aspects of arms control and disarmament. A list of subject headings is provided under which the citations are arranged in the subject section. Author and key word indexes are also provided.
New Perspectives
Author: National Trauma and Collective Memory
Author: Arthur G. NealPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317464052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
A fascinating exploration of our evolving national psyche, this book chronicles major traumas in recent American history - from the Depression and Pearl Harbor, to the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Columbine - how we responded to them as a nation, and what our responses mean. Reflecting on American popular culture as well as the media, this edition includes a new chapter on 9/11 and other acts of terror within the United States, as well as coverage of the Columbia space shuttle disaster. New student-friendly features, including discussion questions and "Symbolic Events" boxes in each chapter, give the book added value as a classroom supplement.