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Hellish.
I read this book twice ten years ago when it was still in the library. I haven't been able to find a copy since then, but the images of the hellish, alien landscapes that Mr. Goin photographs are still so vivid that to use words "powerful" or "evocative" would tarnish their terrible beauty.
One of the most haunting books you'll ever see
I don't know of any book whose images have stuck with me for so long. "Nuclear Landscapes" is a chilling look at the remnants of America's vast nuclear weapons production and testing. From the Hanford reservation in Washington state to the south Pacific to the deserts of Arizona you will always be aware that while the photos may look serene there's always enough radiation around to at least give you cancer or some other related malady. Peter Goin knew the risk he was taking,but he left a priceless work for all people to look at and become aware of what we've done to many places on Earth with nuclear testing. One would wish that India and Pakistan would take a serious look and realize that they too have places that can never be inhabited. That they also have nuclear landscapes.

A pictorial history of nuclear waste graveyards and testing
Anyone researching locations on nuclear waste disposal sites or areas used for nuclear testing will find ample material in this book by Peter Goin.If you're looking for images of desolate and abandoned landscapes, this is definitely a great resource. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Exhibitions    2. General    3. History - General History    4. Marshall Islands    5. Military Science    6. Nevada Test Site (Nev.)    7. Nuclear weapons    8. Photo Essays    9. Testing    10. United States   

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WARNING!
I read this book several years ago.Excellent, but extremely thought provoking.Be warned, it is very upfront and to the point, in regards to what the U.S. government did to the people in the Marshall Islands.

WARNING!
I read this book several years ago.Excellent, but extremely thought provoking.Be warned, it is very upfront and to the point, in regards to what the U.S. government did to the people in the Marshall Islands.

Good Look at the Nuclear testing in the Pacific
This book is an interesting look at the nuclear testing the U.S. did in the Pacific Islands.It is a great book when you must write a paper on the subject, because of its understandability.I would recommend that anybodywho wants to know about the horrors that the Islanders went through duringthe testing and the aftermath of testing should take a look at this book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. History - General History    2. Marshall Islands    3. Nuclear Proliferation    4. Nuclear Warfare    5. Nuclear weapons    6. Nuclear weapons testing victim    7. Nuclear weapons testing victims    8. Oceania    9. Politics and government    10. Social conditions    11. Testing    12. History / General   

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Review of A History of the People of Bikini and their Islands (Second Edition)
The book is fine but you sent it to my cousin in Los Angeles and I haven't received it from him yet!I had previously sent him a book ordered through Amazon.I am sure you will think this is my fault, but I do not agree.I said to send it to the same address as the card holder who is me.I give Amazon an F for this one.Jack Derby

quite a story
I found my teenaged daughter reading this book one day, so when she was finished I picked it up...
a breath of very fresh air
This book was an eye opener.It makes you wonder why this event that happened so many years ago in the middle of the Pacific has been buried for so long.This is not a cut and dry history, this book is a very readable journey through a culture that is unique.The author lets us know who he is, so it enables the reader to understand the person who is doing the interviews.That was a nice and unexpected touch.I found the book to be thought provoking and would recommend it to anyone who has an interest in studying the history of the Pacific. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Australia & Oceania    2. Bikini Atoll    3. Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)    4. History    5. History / Australia & Oceania    6. Marshall Islands    7. Nuclear weapons   

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Excellent follow-up
My Dad was there (USS Reclaimer) - swimming in the atoll the day after the blasts, cleaning refuged ships, etc. It's amazing he's still alive. Fascinating and Absorbing
This is a great mini-coffee table book (get the hardcover if you REALLY dig this stuff!) offering hours of information and photos of the famous atomic bomb tests on naval ships at Bikini Atoll.The 190 page book is broken into nine chapters and has excellent notes on sources.Background information covers the first half of the book while the second is focused on recent dives to many of the famous and lesser known ships that were sunk here.The writing is very informative and the photographs are absolutely haunting, particularly the ones of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga!Several color photos are included in the center.The author pushes no agenda in this book.He merely reports the facts available both "good and bad".

Wreck-Diving Nirvana
James Delgado does a very good job of reviewing the sunken ships of Bikini Atoll and telling the story of the 1946 atomic bomb tests.I read this book after diving at Bikini Atoll and found it to be a good treatment of a topic that has received too little attention.As far as wreck diving goes, Bikini Atoll is the best in the world, and my only disappointment with this book is that it does not fill the need for a coffee-table-style photographic survey of the incredible shipwrecks at Bikini.That being said, Delgado's book is a nice compromise between such a coffee table book and the more comprehensive historical treatment in Jonathan Weisgall's superb book on Bikini Atoll. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bikini Atoll    2. History    3. History - Military / War    4. History: World    5. Marshall Islands    6. Military - Nuclear Warfare    7. Oceania    8. Operation Crossroads, 1946    9. Shipwrecks    10. 20th century    11. American history: postwar, from c 1945 -    12. Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -    13. Japan    14. Nuclear weapons    15. USA   

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Errors and biases
What could have been a change-making ethnography is instead an error filled and one sided rant.Barker makes several glaring factual errors that a good editor should have caught, not the readers.She is so clearly biased in favor of the Marshallese (who admittedly were wronged) that she fails to present both sides of the issues and history and she turns readers against her positions in the process.Many important points lose their impact when she lectures us over and over again on what the 'evil' US government ought to give the Marshall Islanders as restitution. Her great knowledge of a unique and interesting people is lost in the political rhetoric.Not a well balanced ethnography.

Marshall Island struggles onward despite Cold War legacy
Dr. Barker's fascinating work chronicles the efforts of a tiny nation to overcome environmental devastation at the hands of the United States. The challenges faced by the Marshallese people include environmental contamination from carcinogens such as nuclear waste (from American testing of nuclear weapons) and PCBs (from multinational corporations). Anthropology in the public interest
Dr. Barker has told a story that most Americans never learn, and our government still tries to hide: that the U.S. tested nuclear weapons with full knowledge that the Marshallese people would be affected by the fallout and associated radiation. Using innovative anthropological oral history and linguistics analysis techniques, Dr. Barker demonstrates how the Marshallese have endured the physical, political, and cultural impacts of the U.S. nuclear weapons testing program on Bikini and Enewetok, and developed institutions and cultural adaptations to advance beyond victim status. A must-read for any serious scholar of the Cold War and its human consequences. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - General    2. History    3. History & Theory - General    4. Marshall Islands    5. Nuclear weapons    6. Political Science    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Sociology    9. Testing    10. Anthropology    11. Marriage, family & other relationships    12. Nuclear issues    13. Social Science / Anthropology / General   

Subjects:  1. Asia - General    2. Ethnic Studies - General    3. General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Australasian & Pacific history    8. Micronesia   

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Fills in the Details on Forgotten Operations
In Osprey's Campaign series #146, The Marshall Islands 1944, Gordon L. Rottman continues his painstaking effort to detail US Marine operations in the Pacific in the Second World War.As usual, Rottman provides ample information on unit movements, casualties and orders of battle, while avoiding any effort to put the campaign in a human perspective by including first-person accounts or mentioning Medal of Honor recipients. Nevertheless, the Marshall Island campaign of 1944 has faded from sight due to all the attention on D-Day and bigger Pacific actions like Okinawa, so Rottman's effort is not without its merit. By including this operation and all the others that Rottman has written about, Osprey has established a common framework for looking at these largely forgotten campaigns of 1943-1944.
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Subjects:  1. History    2. History - Military / War    3. Military    4. Military - United States    5. Military - World War II    6. American history: Second World War    7. Battles & campaigns    8. History / Military / World War II    9. Pacific Ocean    10. Second World War, 1939-1945    11. The Americas    12. World history: Second World War   

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Fallout
"Children of the Atomic Bomb" is a disturbing look into the after effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II.In reference to the fallout of radiation, the Marshall Islands incident is also discussed.The author's primary emphasis is placed on the bomb's effects on children, including those still in the womb and those not yet conceived.
An incredibly important work
This is the personal and medical memoir of Dr. James Yamazaki, an American of Japanese descent who went to Japan a few years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Dr. Yamazaki went to study the effects of radiation exposure on the populace, and particularly its effects on children. Dr. Yamazaki spent several years in Nagasaki before returning to the US to continue research on the effects of radiation on children (as well as having a general pediatric practice.)Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - Japan    2. Atomic bomb victims    3. Biography    4. General    5. Hiroshima-shi    6. History - General History    7. History: World    8. Japan    9. Medical care    10. Nagasaki-shi    11. Pediatricians    12. Pediatrics    13. Radiation Toxicology    14. United States    15. Yamazaki, James N    16. Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War    17. Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -    18. Australasian & Pacific history: Second World War    19. Australasian & Pacific history: postwar, from c 1945 -    20. History of medicine    21. Micronesia    22. Nuclear weapons   

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A rare primary historical source
Island Victory: The Battle Of Kwajalein Atoll by Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall (1900-1977) is a rare primary historical source, written by at-the-time Lieutenant Colonel S. L. A. Marshall at the time of the deadly Pacific fight in World War II. Marshall was a veteran of WW I who would later serve in Korea and Vietnam and become a brigadier general. When the Seventh Infantry Division battled the Japanese across Kwajalein Atoll in February 1944, Marshall was given the official task of creating a written record of the battle. In order to be as accurate as possible, he brought front-line soldiers to a group interview and taped their conversations in order to get as clear an idea as possible. Written accounts of war simply do not get any closer to the actions and feelings of those were there. Island Victory is a highly recommended, "must-read" book for those who study eye-witness WW II accounts, and a core title contribution to World War II studies academic reference collections. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. History    2. History - Military / War    3. Kwajalein Atoll, Battle of, Ma    4. Kwajalein Atoll, Battle of, Marshall Islands, 1944    5. Military    6. Military - World War II    7. Military History - World War II    8. Australasian & Pacific history: Second World War    9. Battles & campaigns    10. Europe    11. European history: Second World War    12. Pacific Ocean    13. Second World War, 1939-1945   

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Telling an important story
This book carries the imprint of one of my very favorite publishers: Naval Institute Press.I bought my copy at their bookstore on the campus of the USNA in Annapolis, but it sat unread in my personal library for a couple years.Before reading the book, I read the reviews here at Amazon, and the general tenor of those reviews made me a little apprehensive that the content of Jonathon Weisgall's book might be largely a bitter harangue against the American military, and little else.
Startling Revelations from Our Nuclear Past
This thoroughly researched and documented book chronicles one of the most underreported stories of our nuclear past.Utilizing declassified records and wide assortment of sources, Weisgall offers unique insights into the crude mentality of the post-war period, where our own sailors and soldiers became victims of the burgeoning nuclear hysteria.And just as revealing is the callous attitudes toward the native people of Bikini, whose basic human rights were thrashed in the process.If reading this book doesn't leave you with a profound sense of distrust of the military and convinced of the need for more civilian controls, it will at least cause you to doubt the processes and laws that permit such activities and decisions to be made without even lip service to democratic principles.This book is a must read for every thoughtful American.

A Chilling Look at the Dawn of the Cold War
Jonathan Weisgall has done an incredible job of not only documenting the politics and in-fighting leading up to the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, but doing so in a very readable and compelling style.With the kind of factual back-up and verbal acuity possessed by only the most effective of attorneys (which Weisgall must be, given his success as counsel for the Bikini islanders), Weisgall takes the reader from the hallways of the Pentagon to the decks of the target ships swinging at anchor at Bikini Atoll.His narrative manages to touch on a wide variety of diverse topics -- cold war politics, in-fighting within the military bureaucracy, slipshod planning for radiation emergencies, and the popularization of atomic weaponry -- in a manner that is both entertaining and competent.Read more

Subjects:  1. Bikini Atoll    2. History - General History    3. History: American    4. Marshall Islands    5. Military - Weapons    6. Military Operations    7. Nuclear Weapons    8. Operation Crossroads, 1946    9. Safety    10. Testing    11. United States    12. Maritime history    13. Naval forces & warfare   

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Answers, finally.
So much of what happened during the political development of Micronesia now come to light as a result of this well researched book.Until now, much of what transpired during the political status negotiations required tedious search in US government archives and the Library of Congress.That is if the documents were declassified.This book is insightful.

Answers, finally.
So much of what happened during the political development of Micronesia now come to light as a result of this well researched book.Until now, much of what transpired during the political status negotiations required tedious search in US government archives and the Library of Congress.That is if the documents were declassified.This book is insightful.

Answers, Finally.
So mucy of what happened during the political development of Micronesia now come to light as a result of this well researched book.Until now, much of what transpired during the political status negotiations required tedious search in US government archives or the Library of Congress (if unclassified).Insightful! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Foreign relations    2. Government - National    3. International Relations - General    4. Micronesia    5. Northern Mariana Islands    6. Political Science    7. Politics - Current Events    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. U.S. - Pacific Rim Relations    11. United States    12. United States - 20th Century    13. American history: postwar, from c 1945 -    14. Colonization & independence    15. International relations    16. Political Science / Government / National    17. USA    18. c 1960 to c 1970    19. Mariana Islands    20. Guam    21. Micronesia (Federated States)    22. Palau    23. Marshall Islands   

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Need to Know what happened in Micronesia up to 1885
Micronesia contrary to common beliefs was not discovered as it was always settled by the people who call it home. In any case, whether by accident or by design, the region served as host to many colonial administrations(Spanish, Germany, Japan and the United States). Read more

Subjects:  1. Caroline Islands    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History: World    5. Marshall Islands    6. Oceania    7. Oceania - History    8. United States - General    9. Australasia, Oceania & Other Land Areas    10. Australasian & Pacific history    11. USA   

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Written from the heart by a dear friend
I've known the author for years.It is a pleasure and an honor to call this WWII vet a very dear friend.This book is written straight from the heart from someone who saw more things in his tenure in the service than most of us would see in 10 lifetimes.
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Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Historical - General    5. Military    6. Biography & Autobiography / General    7. Biography: historical    8. trafford Publishing,Milton A. Rhea,WW2,WW2- War is Hell,1-4120-1716-5,1412017165,03-2093,032093,Milton Rhea,Rocky Mount-USS,Pierce- USS,Gilbert Islands-USS,Marshall Islands-USS,Mariana Islands- USS,Phillipines-WWII,Borneo-WWII   

Subjects:  1. Caroline Islands    2. Catholic Church    3. Church history    4. History    5. Micronesia (Federated States)    6. Religion    7. Roman Catholic Church   

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An entertaining and richly presented collection
Compiled and edited by Daniel A. Klin II (Director of Drama Education with the Honolulu Theatre for Youth) , and enhanced with black-and-white illustrations by Nashton T. Nahson, Marshall Islands Legends And Stories is an entertaining and richly presented collection of oral folklore featuring 50 stories recorded from 18 storytellers on 8 Marshall islands and atolls. Magic, mischief, quarrels, heroism, traditional Marshallese customs and culture, and much more fill this most engaging read, which enhanced with profiles of storytellers, a glossary, and a pronunciation guide. Also available in a hardcover edition (1573061417, [$$$]), Marshall Islands Legends And Stories is a valued contribution to Pacific Island Folklore & Mythology reference collections and reading lists. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Folklore & Mythology - Folklore    2. History: American    3. Legends    4. Marshall Islands    5. Sociology    6. Tales   

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Subjects:  1. Christmas    2. Marshall Islands    3. Social life and customs