Day of Two Suns: U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders

By Jane Dibblin

Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. Day of Two Suns is a shocking and timely study of the story of a displaced people contaminated by nuclear fallout, forcibly resettled as their own islands become uninhabitable, and reduced to lives of poverty, ill-health, and dependence. It is also a stirring account of the Marshall Islanders themselves-their resilience and protests and attempts to seek redress in the courts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941533832
• ISBN13: 9780941533836
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Human Radiation Experiment Victims

The native population on Rongelap were in close proximity and downwind of a 15-megaton H-bomb test. Jane Dibblin provides an investigative reporter's account of the devestating impact on the islanders.

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 anybody who wants to know about the horrors that the Islanders went through during the testing and the aftermath of testing should take a look at this book.