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Looks at the history of the Pacific Missile Range, discusses its role in the arms race, and describes how the lives of the Marshall Islanders have been affected
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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.
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