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Examining the effects of fallout clouds in the U.S., these photographs portray people whose lives were crossed by radioactive fallout during the U.S. government's above ground testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada from 1951 to 1963.
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From 1951 to 1963, the U.S. government conducted atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in Nevada without regard to the effect of radioactive fallout on humans, livestock and the environment. In the late 1950s, birth defects and deaths from cancer began to soar among civilian and military test-site workers and their newborn children, and among "downwinders" living in Nevada, Utah and other western states. Gallagher, a professional photographer, spent several years interviewing and photographing these nuclear-test victims and gathering evidence of official indifference, callousness and outright cover-ups. The sheer density of suffering depicted here is awesome; in certain Utah towns, for instance, Gallagher found cases of cancer in every house. The bitter, stoic testimony of the victims (many of whom have since died), accompanied by Gallagher's photographic portraits of them, is deeply disturbing and exposes a major national scandal. Photos.
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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., Berkeley
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. 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 For 12 years beginning in 1951, the U.S. government conducted aboveground testing of nuclear weapons in the deserts of Nevada. This book is an 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. 129 duotones. Book has minor shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 46007