The Baneberry disaster : a generation of atomic fallout / Larry C. Johns, with Alan R. Johns.

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Johns, Larry Charles, 1944- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2017]
Description
xiii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

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    Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "The Baneberry Disaster covers the calamitous December 1970 Baneberry underground nuclear test that pumped nearly 7 million curies of radiation into the atmosphere, caused the suspension of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site for six months, and whose radioactive cloud exposed 86 test-site workers to radiation, two of whom died of leukemia less than four years later. The authors are attorneys from Las Vegas who spent 25 years pursuing a lawsuit for the victims at Baneberry. The story begins in 1971, just after the Baneberry test vented, and takes the reader through the years leading up to the trial, the 41-day trial in 1979, and the multiple appeals following the trial. It discusses the claims and lawsuits filed by others exposed to atomic testing, and the congressional investigations that led to the enactment of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act in 1990"--Back cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 1 To the Dark Tower: January 16, 1979 7
    • 2 Thar She Blows: December 18, 1970 11
    • 3 The Luck of the Draw 23
    • 4 The Bulldog: April 1971 30
    • 5 The Georgiadis Curse: October-December 1971 33
    • 6 The King Can Do No Wrong 37
    • 7 We're Here to Help You: January 1973-February 1974 46
    • 8 A Ray of Hope 49
    • 9 The Ides of March, 1974 54
    • 10 Cracking the Shell of Secrecy 62
    • 11 Tell That Lawyer to Go to Hell 66
    • 12 The Second Man 76
    • 13 A Hobson's Choice 79
    • 14 GI Joe and the Smoky Vets 85
    • 15 Dr. Alice Stewart, Éminence Grise 89
    • 16 Was It Really an Accident? 111
    • 17 Murphy's Law 119
    • 18 To the Rescue 124
    • 19 The Fault Is in Ourselves 127
    • 20 No Harm, No Foul 130
    • 21 Occam's Razor 135
    • 22 Nickeling and Diming Them to Death 145
    • 23 Give 'Em the Old Razzle-Dazzle 152
    • 24 Dr. Evans's Marvelous Cluster Theory 157
    • 25 Emptying the AEC Laboratories 165
    • 26 Not with a Bang But a Whimper 171
    • 27 Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied 174.
    ISBN
    • 9781943859450 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    • 1943859450 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2017005507
    OCLC
    971893070
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