Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics by A. Constandina Titus

Author:A. Constandina Titus [Titus, A. Constandina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Public Policy, United States, Political Science, State & Local, West (AK; CA; CO; HI; ID; MT; NV; UT; WY), History, Environmental Policy, General
ISBN: 9780874179620
Google: 4iuVDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2016-04-15T06:46:00+00:00

That the Government may be liable for the negligence of its agents in failing to warn herders in an area of anticipated fallout of planned detonations known to involve substantial danger to them or their property, I entertain no doubt. Not unmindful of the vital importance of nuclear experimentation to the welfare and safety of our country there yet has been established nothing here that would justify the intentional or negligent endangering of lives or property in the course of the tests. To seek to do so would seem to compromise fundamental human rights for the protection of which our governmental policy is designed. Indeed, while reluctant to broadly concede the point, it was not disputed by counsel for the Government that its responsibility was to so conduct the tests as not to intentionally, wantonly or negligently endanger human lives or private property. Certainly, there was no evidence from which it might be inferred that to do so was within the discretion vested in any officer or agent of the United States.21

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