Explosion source phenomenology
by Richards, Paul G., Taylor, Steven R., Patton, Howard J.
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The Tainted Desert documents the controversies surrounding the Yucca Mountain project - America's first large-scale national high-level nuclear waste site, built at a cost of billions of taxpayer dollars and located in Nevada less than 100 miles from Las Vegas.
""A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book.""--Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later-in 1951-and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started sett…
Introduction: Sunrise in the west; snow in the tropics -- Operation Crossroads: the world's first nuclear disaster -- The coming of the "super"--Runaway bomb -- The victims of Bravo -- Monsters and movements: the cultural "fallout" of nuclear testing -- Bikini postmortem I: Publ…
During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, p…