The Greatest Disasters of the 20th Century
Author | : Frances Kennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9780890090428 |
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Author | : Frances Kennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9780890090428 |
Author | : Random House |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9781870461658 |
Titanic - Tokyo earthquake - Hindenburg - Chernobyl - Chemical gas leak Bhopal.
Author | : Octopus Publishing Group |
Publisher | : Conran Octopus |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9780706421460 |
Author | : Andrew L. Jenks |
Publisher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9780136038023 |
Part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series, Perils of Progress: Environmental Disasters in the 20th Century is essential reading for anyone interested in furthering a clean and safe environment while simultaneously encouraging responsible manufacturing. Author Andrew Jenks examines past environmental disasters, such as the tragedies at Love Canal, Bhopal, and Chernobyl, to prepare students to anticipate and head off potential environmental disasters as well as to meet and deal rationally with the next toxic apocalypse should one occur.
Author | : Margot Keam Cleary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Disasters |
ISBN | : 9780861246571 |
Author | : Ballard C. Campbell |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438130120 |
Presents a chronologically-arranged reference to catastrophic events in American history, including natural disasters, economic depressions, riots, murders, and terrorist attacks.
Author | : Mitchell Newton-Matza |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1389 |
Release | : 2014-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
From the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the Sandy Hook school massacre of 2012, this two-volume encyclopedia surveys tragic events—natural and man-made, famous and forgotten—that helped shape American history. Tragedies and disasters have always been part of the fabric of American history. Some gave rise to reactions that profoundly influenced the nation. Others dominated public consciousness for a moment, then disappeared from collective memory. Organized chronologically, Disasters and Tragic Events examines these moments, covering both the familiar and the obscure and probing their immediate and long-term effects. Unlike other works that concentrate on a particular type of disaster, for example, weather- or medicine-related tragedies, this two-volume encyclopedia has no such limits. Its entries range from natural disasters, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, to civic disturbances, environmental disasters, epidemics and medical errors, transportation accidents, and more. The work is a perfect supplement for history classes and will also prove of great interest to the general reader.
Author | : Samuel Upton Newtan |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nuclear accidents |
ISBN | : 1425985114 |
During the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of people died from the use of nuclear weapons in Nuclear War I and other nuclear disasters. Dr. Newtan's book describes the disastrous consequences of the following nuclear developments all of which occurred in the 20th century: The Trinity Test of a nuclear device (explosion) The destruction of Hiroshima by a uranium bomb The destruction of Nagasaki by a plutonium bomb The hydrogen bomb, neutron bomb, and cobalt bomb Radioactive fallout Radiological weapons The BRAVO Test (hydrogen bomb) Three Mile Island nuclear reactor disaster Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster Fermi I breeder reactor disaster Nuclear submarine disasters (U.S., U.S.S.R.) Thresher nuclear submarine disaster Scorpion nuclear submarine disaster Nuclear satellite disasters Lost nuclear weapons Lost nuclear fissile materials for weapons Nuclear waste disasters Acts of war on nuclear facilities Nuclear terrorism Proliferation of nuclear weapons Nuclear reactors in space Nuclear weapons in space Nuclear waste can it be safely stored for millennia?
Author | : Michael J. Oliver |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781847205490 |
The First and Second World Wars, the great depression, oil shocks, inflation, financial crises, stock market crashes, the collapse of the Soviet command economy and Third World disasters are discussed in this comprehensive book. The contributors subject these disasters to in-depth assessment, carefully considering their costs and impact on specific countries and regions, as well as assessing them in a global context. The book examines the legacy of economic disasters and asks whether economic disasters are avoidable or whether policymakers can learn from their mistakes.
Author | : Jon Wilkman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620409178 |
"Floodpath attempts to rescue the disaster from obscurity . . . The author captures many heartbreaking stories of survivors . . . The effect is powerful." --The Wall Street Journal Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path. It was a horrific catastrophe, yet one which today is virtually forgotten. With research gathered over more than two decades, award-winning writer and filmmaker Jon Wilkman revisits the deluge that claimed nearly five hundred lives. A key figure is William Mulholland, the self-taught engineer who created an unprecedented water system, allowing Los Angeles to become America's second largest city, and who was also responsible for the design and construction of the St. Francis Dam. Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind L.A. noir fictions like the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.