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American Ground Zero: : The Secret Nuclear War

AUTHOR: CAROLE GALLAGHER
ISBN: 0679754326
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American Ground Zero: : The Secret Nuclear War
- Book Review, by CAROLE GALLAGHER

From Publishers Weekly
This astonishing compendium of photos and essays documents the devastation inflicted by Cold War-era nuclear testing on test-site workers and residents in the American Southwest and is timed to coincide with an exhibition at New York City's International Center of Photography. BOMC selection. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
This book is a collection of photographs and oral histories of people whose lives were affected by radioactive fallout--civilians in Morman Utah and other Western states unlucky enough to live "downwind" from U.S. nuclear weapons testing during the 1950s and 1960s. Gallagher, a former New York photographer, spent seven years interviewing and photographing radiation survivors, who included dairy farmers, ranchers, professors, Native Americans, housewives, soldiers, artists, and shepherds. What they had in common were leukemias, brain tumors, birth defects, diabetes, sterility, miscarriages, thyroid cancers, the death of children, medical bills, and funerals--not to mention dirty fallout and dirty politics. Gallagher's photos of these victims without status in this lonely geography are compelling and speak volumes. Highly recommended for all collections.- Diane M. Fortner, Univ. of California Lib., BerkeleyCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Book News, Inc.
A moving collection of interviews and b&w photos of people who worked and lived near ground zero at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Gallagher chronicles dead and dying test site workers, military personnel, and the "low-use segment of the population" who lived in the small, mostly Mormon towns downwind. Lays bare the 30 years of denial by the U.S. Government that its own citizens were victims of the atomic bomb. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Description
A poignant collection of photographs which records the devastating effects of the United States government's mendacious and reckless nuclear testing program on the men, women, children, animals, and landscape of the American continent.

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A poignant collection of photographs which records the devastating effects of the United States government's mendacious and reckless nuclear testing program on the men, women, children, animals, and landscape of the American continent.

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Book Review

American Ground Zero: : The Secret Nuclear War
- Book Reviews, by CAROLE GALLAGHER

American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War

FROM THE PUBLISHER

American Ground Zero is the extraordinary product of one photojournalist's decade-long commitment, a gripping, courageous collection of portraits and interviews of those whose lives were crossed by radioactive fallout. For twelve years beginning in 1951, the United states government conducted aboveground testing of nuclear weapons in the deserts of Nevada. For more than four decades it has tried to cover up the human and environmental devastation wrought by this testing. In American Ground Zero, Carole Gallagher has penetrated the veil of official secrecy and anonymity to document the incredible untold story of the Americans whose misfortune it was to live downwind of the nuclear detonations - those citizens described in a top-secret Atomic Energy Commission memo as "a low-use segment of the population" - and of civilian workers and military personnel exposed to radiation at the Nevada Test Site. The aboveground nuclear testing was "the most prodigiously reckless program of scientific experimentation in United States history," as Keith Schneider notes in his foreword to the book. Many of its 126 fallout clouds floated across the American West and eastward with radiation levels comparable to those released at Chernobyl. Yet residents of the downwind areas were consistently told that there was no danger, and were even encouraged to "participate in a moment of history" by coming out to watch these fallout clouds drifting over their homes. Abandoning her career as a successful New York photographer, Carole Gallagher moved to Utah in 1983 and spent the next seven years networking among radiation survivors' groups and finding people willing to be photographed and tell their story. She covered six downwind states including test site workers and atomic veterans. The result is a striking gallery of the undecorated casualties of an undeclared war. Never exploitative, Gallagher's photographs only rarely convey the subjects' considerable physical sufferings: instead, they

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one photojournalist's decade-long commitment, a gripping collection of portraits and interviews of those whose lives where crossed by radioactive fallout

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

This astonishing compendium of photos and essays documents the devastation inflicted by Cold War-era nuclear testing on test-site workers and residents in the American Southwest and is timed to coincide with an exhibition at New York City's International Center of Photography. BOMC selection. (May)

Booknews

A moving collection of interviews and b&w photos of people who worked and lived near ground zero at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. Gallagher chronicles dead and dying test site workers, military personnel, and the "low-use segment of the population" who lived in the small, mostly Mormon towns downwind. Lays bare the 30 years of denial by the U.S. Government that its own citizens were victims of the atomic bomb. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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