Open AccessREVIEW: Exposing the US nuclear test legacy in the Marshall Islands
Author(s) -
Giff Johnson
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v12i2.871
Subject(s) - newspaper , tragedy (event) , soviet union , nuclear test , nuclear weapon , government (linguistics) , political science , economic history , project commissioning , test (biology) , publishing , test site , history , law , engineering , sociology , politics , mining engineering , geology , social science , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy
The world's worst nuclear reactor accident occurred in late April 1986 at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people and millions of square miles of land were contaminated by radioactive fallout spewed from the reactor meltdown. But, in spite of great efforts by the government of the then Soviet Union to cover up and minimise the extent of this disaster, within days people and governments across Europe and, indeed, around the world were glued to their television sets or pouring over newspaper accounts of this unfolding tragedy.