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Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs

By Jon Else
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By Jon Else
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The atomic age comes vividly to life, from U.S. testing sites to the people who witnessed the organized nuclear explosions and their environmental impact. Serving both as a warning and a reminder of how far diplomacy has stretched, Jon Else traces the history of American nuclear testing.

A timely book for unstable times,Frenchman Flatrecounts the science, politics, and human experience of those who developed nuclear weapons, suffered the consequences of their testing, and fought for and against arms control between the 1940s and 1990s. The throughline of this vast, complex story is a thirty-seven-kiloton atomic bomb dubbed "Priscilla" that was exploded above a custom-built mini-civilization at Frenchman Flat, Nevada, in 1957. Jon Else uses Priscilla and the bombs that prece...