ONLINE: America’s Chernobyl details the controversies, decision making, and actions that led to the U.S.'s fourth and fifth atomic bomb detonations which occurred at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in August 1946. The nation’s leaders did not understand the power they possessed in testing these devices. They unleashed a nuclear catastrophe that had a disastrous effect on thousands of U.S. Navy personnel. This lecture-based course presents a cautionary tale about the consequences of government and scientific arrogance that we can view from the distance of eighty years later. | Lecture + Q&A.
Max enrollment: 24.
Class sessions are recorded.
