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The Baneberry disaster : a generation of atomic fallout / Larry C. Johns, with Alan R. Johns.
Author
Johns, Larry Charles, 1944-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2017]
Description
xiii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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KF224.B257 J64 2017
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Subject(s)
Baneberry Nuclear Test, Nev., 1970
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Trials, litigation, etc
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Nuclear weapons
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Testing
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Law and legislation
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United States
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Wrongful death
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United States
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Roberts, Harley
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Nunamaker, Bill
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Author
Johns, Alan R.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Trial and arbitral proceedings
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Series
Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history
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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.
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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.
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ISBN
9781943859450 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
1943859450 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2017005507
OCLC
971893070
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