Grappling with the Bomb Britain's Pacific H-bomb tests

• मुख्य लेखक: Maclellan, Nic (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: ANU Press 2017
• श्रृंखला: Pacific Series
• विषय: Kiribati; Pacific Ocean; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear issues; nuclear weapons; pacific; kiribati; hydrogen bomb; Christmas Island; Fiji; Kiritimati; Operation Grapple; Thermonuclear weapon
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

सारांश

Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain's 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957-58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island-today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program-many are still living with the health and environmental consequences. Based on archival research and interviews with nuclear survivors, Grappling with the Bomb presents i-Kiribati woman Sui Kiritome, British pacifist Harold Steele, businessman James Burns, Fijian sailor Paul Ah Poy, English volunteers Mary and Billie Burgess and many other witnesses to Britain's nuclear folly.

आईएसबीएन

GB.09.2017
9781760461386

अभिगमन

Open Access