Published May 6, 1981
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Journal article
The radiating paradise
Creators
Description
Decades after the a-bomb experiments in the desert of Nevada, cases of illness occur more frequently: many former soldiers who had to observe the tests as spectators suffer from leukemia, skin and thyroid ulcers. Even worse are the late results of the nuclear weapon tests in the Pacific: on Bikini and Eniwetok, once paradise-like atolls, the death from radiation is waiting, an attempt to recultivate the bombed Bikini Atoll failed. (orig./RW)
Abstract (German)
Jahrzehnte nach den Atombombenversuchen in der Wueste von Nevada haeufen sich die Krankheitsfaelle: Viele ehemalige Soldaten, die als Beobachter den Tests zusehen mussten, leiden an Leukaemie, Haut- und Schilddruesengeschwueren. Schlimmer noch sind die Spaetfolgen der Kernwaffenversuche im Pazifik: Auf den einst paradiesischen Atollen Bikini und Eniwetok lauert der Strahlentod - eine Rekultivierung des zerbombten Bikini-Atolls schlug fehl. (orig./RW)Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (German)
- Strahlendes Paradies
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Plus
- Journal Issue
- no.19
- Series
- Plus.
- ISSN
- 0173-8445
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 12638143
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BIKINI; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; MAN; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEVADA TEST SITE; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RADIATION HAZARDS
- Descriptors DEC
- ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; EXPLOSIONS; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; ISLANDS; MAMMALS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; PERSONNEL; PRIMATES; RADIATION EFFECTS; VERTEBRATES