American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War
- ISBN-10
- 0262071460
- ISBN-13
- 9780262071468
- Category
- Nuclear weapons
- Pages
- 427
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Carole Gallagher
Description
Examining the effects of fallout clouds in the U.S., these photographs portray people whose lives were crossed by radioactive fallout during the U.S. government's above ground testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada from 1951 to 1963.
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