Grappling with the Bomb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grappling with the Bomb write by Nic Maclellan. This book was released on 2017-09-26. Grappling with the Bomb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain’s 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957–58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island—today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program—many are still living with the health and environmental consequences. Based on archival research and interviews with nuclear survivors, Grappling with the Bomb presents i-Kiribati woman Sui Kiritome, British pacifist Harold Steele, businessman James Burns, Fijian sailor Paul Ah Poy, English volunteers Mary and Billie Burgess and many other witnesses to Britain’s nuclear folly.
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us write by Joseph Andras. This book was released on 2021-02-23. Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France Winner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours, so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching. He is caught, the bomb is defused, and he is tortured, tried in a day, condemned to death, and thrown into a cell to await the guillotine. A routine event, perhaps, in a brutal conflict that ended the lives of more than a million Muslim Algerians. But what if the militant is a “pied-noir”? What if his lover was a member of the French Resistance? What happens to a “European” who chooses the side of anti-colonialism? By turns lyrical, meditative, and heart-stoppingly suspenseful, this novel by Joseph Andras, based on a true story, was a literary and political sensation in France, winning the Prix Goncourt for First Novel and being acclaimed by Le Monde as “vibrantly lyrical and somber” and by the journal La Croix as a “masterpiece”.
Building The H Bomb: A Personal History
Building The H Bomb: A Personal History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building The H Bomb: A Personal History write by Kenneth W Ford. This book was released on 2015-03-25. Building The H Bomb: A Personal History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with — and relaxed with — scientific giants of that time such as Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi, Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and John Wheeler, and here offers illuminating insights into the personalities, the strengths, and the quirks of these men. Well known for his ability to explain physics to nonspecialists, Ford also brings to life the physics of fission and fusion and provides a brief history of nuclear science from the discovery of radioactivity in 1896 to the ten-megaton explosion of “Mike” that obliterated a Pacific Island in 1952.Ford worked at both Los Alamos and Princeton's Project Matterhorn, and brings out Matterhorn's major, but previously unheralded contribution to the development of the H bomb. Outside the lab, he drove a battered Chevrolet around New Mexico, a bantam motorcycle across the country, and a British roadster around New Jersey. Part of the charm of Ford's book is the way in which he leavens his well-researched descriptions of the scientific work with brief tales of his life away from weapons.
Face to Face with the Bomb
Face to Face with the Bomb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Face to Face with the Bomb write by . This book was released on 2003. Face to Face with the Bomb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Photographer Shambroom documents the post-Cold War nuclear reality in a series of striking and eerily beautiful images that offer an unprecedented inside look at America's nuclear arsenal. 83 color photos.
Living Kinship in the Pacific
Living Kinship in the Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living Kinship in the Pacific write by Christina Toren. This book was released on 2015-04-01. Living Kinship in the Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as “knowledge that counts.” It is with this observation that this volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case studies of Pacific kinship. In doing so, contributors share an understanding of kinship as a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives, in an area where deep historical links provide for close and useful comparison. The ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa with the addition of three instructive cases from Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan. The book ends with an account of how kinship is constituted in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior.
