Departmental Papers (HSS)
Document Type
Review
Date of this Version
6-1995
Publication Source
Isis
Volume
86
Issue
2
Start Page
353
Last Page
355
DOI
10.1086/357225
Abstract
The island of Bikini is at the cener of this meticulous reconstruction of the weapons tests conducted there. Jonathan Weisgall has been legal counsel to the Bikini islanders since 1975, and his narrative is most compelling when it stays close to the islanders. There is barely an analytical sentence in the book, and the author is prone to harsh adjectives for those who promulgated the tests. But the storytelling is first rate, and Weisgall has done more than his share of combining archives and dissecting oral history interviews.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© 1995 The University of Chicago Press.
Recommended Citation
Lindee, S. M. (1995). Review of Jonathan M. Weisgall, Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll. Isis, 86 (2), 353-355. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/357225
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Date Posted: 24 October 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.