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Summary: Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOW

Dunlap-Shohl, Peter

Summary: "An autobiographical account, in graphic novel format, of life in Alaska during the Cold War"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 DUN

Plokhy, Serhii

Summary: "A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today,there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.48 PLO

Summary: Using extraordinary and rarely seen archival footage, director Robert Stone brings to light the largely untold story of Bikini Atoll. A peaceful, tropical island in the Pacific, it was the sight of a series of atomic bomb tests in 1946.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAD

Summary: Chronicles the top secret, strange and visually compelling history of the design, production and testing of atomic and hydrogen bombs by the U.S.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by VCE 2006

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRI

Pincus, Walter

Summary: The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands--an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon that preserved the peace of the post-war years. It was here--with the 1954 Castle Bravo test over Bikini Atoll--that America executed its largest nuclear...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.4 PIN

Light, Michael.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2003

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.45119 LIG

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