Excerpts

From: Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World
Raincoast Books, Rodale Press, September 2004

The Gadget, from Chapter One, “The Bomb Stops Here”

“In August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt from his home on Long Island explaining how uranium fission might create a nuclear chain reaction that could unleash more energy than ever before contemplated.” More

Aleutian Landfall from Chapter Three, “On an Ocean Named for Peace”

“The idea of continuing toward Amchitka, not knowing the test date, would be foolhardy, Captain John Cormack suggested. ‘That sea ya had out there? That ain’t nothin’.” More

Voices from Chapter Seven, “Mendocino Ridge”

“Korotva climbed out on the pole in the shrieking wind, grabbed a line to the broken piece, and crawled back on deck so we could retrieve it. His daring act had the effect of snapping us out of our gloom.” More

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