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

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.;Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Preface to American Edition; Part One: Testing: The Marshall Islanders' Experience; 1: Introduction; 2: Invaders: 'Missionaries and Soldiers-Hand in Hand'; 3: The First Generation of Testing: Radiation Clouds over Rongelap; 4: Leaving Rongelap; 5: The Second Generation of Testing: Kwajalein-Refugees and Protesters; 6: Kwajalein-Base Living; 7: 'Dealing with the Outside: Keeping What is Ours': Women's Experiences of Colonialism; Part Two: The Pacific Picture; 8: Solomon's Solution: US Policy in Micronesia.