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	Amchitka Homepage
		Amchitka, so named by the Aleuts who've inhabited the Aleutian Islands for at least 9000 years, is one of the North Pacific Aleutian Chain's Rat Islands.
		The Amchitka testing facility was closed in 1994, accompanied by an on-going U.S. Government effort at cleaning up the residual radioactive, chemical, and other hazardous waste left on the island.
		Amchitka's weather is much like the rest of the Western Aleutian Islands...fog, rain, snow, with temperatures ranging from 11 to 65 degrees through the year.
	hlswilliwaw.com /aleutians/amchitka-homepage.htm (310 words)

	Amchitka Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amchitka Island is the southernmost island of the Rat Island Group in the Aleutian chain and is about 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) southwest of Anchorage.
		Amchitka Island was the site of three nuclear detonations conducted in October 1965, October 1969, and November 1971.
		The increase reflects the inclusion of a contingency that was not assumed in the 1995 estimate and verification of technical assumptions associated with the long-term surveillance and monitoring program.
	web.em.doe.gov /bemr96/ainp.html (1185 words)

	In These Times * 30 Years After
		Amchitka Island sits at the midway point on the great arc of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, less than 900 miles across the Bering Sea from the coast of Russia.
		Amchitka, a spongy landscape of maritime tundra, is one of the most southerly of the Aleutians.
		Amchitka may have been remote from the continental United States, but for nearly 10,000 years it had been the home of the Aleuts.
	www.inthesetimes.com /projectcensored/stclair2317new.html (2045 words)

	Amchitka History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amchitka Island is one of many islands of the Aleutian Island chain in western Alaska.
		Amchitka Island is located at 51° 32' N Latitude, 179° 00' E Longitude and has an approximate area of 300 km.
		Amchitka today is uninhabited, but residents of villages on other islands sometimes hunt for marine mammals or fish near it.
	www.ims.uaf.edu /research/johnson/amchitka/history.html (787 words)

	Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association
		Location: Amchitka, so named by the Aleuts who allegedly lived there for at least 9000 years, is one of the North Pacific Aleutian Chain's Rat Islands.
		History: Amchitka was the site of some of the earliest American and Canadian victories during WWII, having been retaken from the Japanese in January of 1943.
		Climate: Amchitka's weather is much like the rest of the Western Aleutian Islands...fog, rain, snow, with temperatures ranging from 11 to 65 degrees through the year.
	www.apiai.com /tribeDesc.asp?page=tribes&tribe=Amchitka (269 words)

	Questions from the Amchitka Press Conference August 1, 2005
		(View Full Amchitka Final Report and CRESP Presentation at the Briefing) The August 1st CRESP presentation was followed that evening by an hour and a half of questions from the audience; and, as planned, a second and more informal open session for additional questions was held for about four hours the next morning.
		After examining the Amchitka history, geological information and conferring with people who had previous experience at Amchitka, we chose sampling areas closest to the most likely point for contamination to move from the cavities to the sea.
		Amchitka is too far from the nearest villages at Adak, NOAA determined that if Aleuts collected marine mammals for CRESP to be used for chemical analysis, they could not do so without scientific collecting permits, which required 2 years to obtain.
	www.cresp.org /Amchitka/Questions_AmchitkaPressConference_8_1_05.html (1809 words)

	Nuclear legacy studied - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Amchitka is home to a diverse web of marine life that includes kelp beds, king crab, bald eagles, puffins, halibut, cod, sea otters, sea lions and killer whales.
		The Amchitka research study is being conducted by CRESP, the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation.
		No one lives on Amchitka, although native Aleuts on Adak Island 155 miles away fish in the surrounding waters and view the region as their historic home.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_208362.html (1398 words)

	Where We Live
		Amchitka lies at the bottom of the arc formed by the Aleutian chain, and actually is in the Eastern Hemisphere.
		The few vehicles on Amchitka were used for commuting from one end of the island to the other, and for transport of people and supplies from the air strip to the compound.
		While on Amchitka, my sleep was never disturbed in the night by emergency vehicle sirens, and for a very good reason: we were utterly on our own.
	www.eosdev.com /Nature/Amchitka.htm (1702 words)

	Geotimes - March 2002 - Amchitka Island
		Amchitka lies in the western portion of the Aleutian Volcanic Arc, which began its development some 55 million years ago and today hosts about 50 active subaerial volcanoes over a distance of 3,000 kilometers.
		In the case of Amchitka, the few may be at special risk: They are Native people living nearby in the Aleutians who derive most of their diet directly from the land and sea.
		Amchitka is an experiment that we would not repeat, but it is one from which we can learn, and one from which we are obliged to learn as we become more dependent upon geologic isolation of the radioactive byproducts of our civilization.
	www.geotimes.org /mar02/feature_amchitka.html (2473 words)

	Amchitka Alaska Resource Guide, City or community of Amchitka, Alaska Historical Events and Facts, Information, ...
		Amchitka was very different from Adak in that the latter was very mountainous while all but the far northwestern tip of Amchitka was quite flat.
		Toward this end, Amchitka had three runways: "Fox," the shortest, was closest to the island's harbor, and was used by fighters.
		Amchitka was maintained as a military outpost during the postwar period for two purposes: to provide a radio range station and an alternate landing site for aircraft flying the "Chain," and as a weather monitoring site for Russian weather reports.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /akcountyamchitkahev.htm (720 words)

	Amchitka By Zs Livingstone (Dec. 5, 2004)
		They did a lot of media work and a few of their members landed on the shore of Amchitka in zodiacs.
		Amchitka is directly over one of the more seismically active zones of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
		Blasting a hole under Amchitka was the near equivalent setting off a bomb on the San Andreas fault in California.
	educate-yourself.org /zsl/amchitka05dec04.shtml (1021 words)

	Amchitka - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amchitka, island, 40 mi (64 km) long, in the Rat group of the Aleutian Islands, W Alaska.
		It was a site in 1965 and 1971 for the underground detonation of nuclear devices, its small population having been relocated.
		In the 1990s, radiation from the test caves was detected at the surface.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-amchitka.html (289 words)

	Amchitka Homepage
		It is located approximately 1340 miles west southwest from Anchorage, Alaska, and 870 miles east of Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, of the Russian Far East.
		Amchitka was the site of some of the earliest American and Canadian victories during WWII, having been retaken from the Japanese in January of 1943.
		The first detonation was of an 80 kiloton bomb known as "Long Shot" some 2,359 below the surface on the 29th of October, 1965.
	www.hlswilliwaw.com /aleutians/amchitka-homepage.htm (310 words)

	Amchitka Nuclear Test Workers to Gain Compensation for Occupational Illnesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Amchitka provision, part of a broader nuclear weapons workers compensation package offered by Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., and others, was added at Senator Murkowski’s request to the Senate-passed bill this summer.
		Murkowski said it may be impossible to quantify the actual amount of radiation Amchitka workers received since the old Atomic Energy Commission did not properly collect and maintain radiation exposure records.
		The survivors of Amchitka workers who died prior to the passage of this legislation will also be eligible for compensation.
	www.iicph.org /docs/amchitka_compensation.htm (564 words)

	Nevada Surveyor.com
		In the early 1980s it was determined that environmental damage to Amchitka Island by the nuclear tests and prior U.S. Government occupations needed to be investigated, assessed, and a cleanup plan implemented.
		A total of eight sites on Amchitka needed extensive surveying to determine the volumes of contaminated water and mud that needed to be stabilized.
		We landed 3 1/2 hours later on Amchitka in a 40 mile per hour crosswind with horizontal rain which we found was pretty much the normal weather pattern.
	www.nevadasurveyor.com /amchitka.htm (1297 words)

	SitNews - Diving for signs of nuclear contamination
		Amchitka, one of the Aleutian Islands, was the site of three nuclear blasts in the 1960s and 1970s.
		Amchitka's nuclear legacy began in 1964, when officials with the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission needed a place to test nuclear devices that were too large for the Nevada Test Site.
		During the explosion of "Project Cannikin," the green and brown surface of Amchitka rose and fell 20 feet, and the shock registered 7.0 on the Richter scale.
	www.sitnews.us /1204news/122304/122304_ak_science.html (773 words)

	Alsos: Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska
		This book describes in detail the history and politics of the three Cold War nuclear weapon tests on Amchitka, an island in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska.
		It starts with a brief history of the Aleutian Islands, including Amchitka, which were designated a wildlife refuge before World War II, and became a battle zone during that war.
		During the early years of the Cold War, conservationists and the military struggled for control of the islands, and in the 1950s, a plan for atomic bomb testing there was abandoned.
	alsos.wlu.edu /information.aspx?id=1404 (194 words)

	Amchitka and the Bomb \| Book Review \| atomicarchive.com
		In Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska, author Dean Kohlkoff recounts the history and politics of these often forgotten nuclear tests.
		The blast was set a mile beneath the earth, and lifted Amchitka one foot in the air, drowning its rugged cliffs in waves two stories high.
		Amchitka Island is once again a National Wildlife Refuge but concerns about radioactive contamination still linger.
	www.atomicarchive.com /Reviews/0295982551.shtml (362 words)

	Nature and Politics (July 7, 1999)
		Amchitka Island sits at the midway point on the great arc of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, less than nine hundred miles across the Bering Sea from the coast of Kamchatka, Russia.
		Amchitka may have been remote from the continental United States, but for nearly 10,000 years it had been the home of the Aleut people, who left Amchitka in the 1880s after Russian fur traders had wiped out the sea otter population.
		Amchitka became the site of three underground nuclear explosions, the first ones supervised by the Pentagon and not the Atomic Energy Commission.
	eatthestate.org /03-40/NaturePolitics.htm (1751 words)

	Press Release: Senate Committee Seeks Benefits for Amchitka Island Workers and Families - Group was Excluded from 1990 ...
		Amchitka Island was the site of the largest underground nuclear testing ever conducted by the United States.
		SJR 21 was introduced by the committee on behalf of Alaskan civilian workers, and the families of these workers, exposed to radiation on Amchitka.
		They should have been informed as to whether they were in a high risk category, and whether their health conditions were related to Amchitka.
	www.akrepublicans.org /pastlegs/prmackie104211999.htm (417 words)

	Project Milrow
		Amchitka, one of the Rat Islands, is a 43-mile-long island in the Aleutians, and is located not far from the last island in the Chain, Attu.
		The island was a military outpost during WWII, and the airfield and base camp from that facility were reused for the Long Shot and Milrow nuclear tests.
		Since Amchitka was a major seal breeding island, the environmentalists launched a full-blown objection to the test, resulting in much apprehension about the blast actually taking place.
	www.firebirds.org /menu5/mnu5_p41.htm (689 words)

	The Unknown Legacy of Alaska's Atomic Tests, Alaska Science Forum
		Their possible leakage into the ocean, groundwater, and the air around Amchitka is a subject high on Doug Dasher's list of things to figure out.
		The main thing that concerns him about Amchitka is that in the last 25 years no one has tested the ocean surrounding the island.
		The mussels may hold clues as to whether the shock cavities are leaking radioactive materials into the ocean, as computer models of water flow beneath the island suggest.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF15/1525.html (765 words)

	Amchitka Alaska Resource Guide, City or community of Amchitka, Alaska Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
		The population of Amchitka is approximately 25 (1990).
		The distance from Amchitka to Washington DC is 5231 miles.
		Amchitka is positioned 51.56 degrees north of the equator and 178.87 degrees west of the prime meridian.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /akcountyamchitka.htm (322 words)

	i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CRESP-related Universities whose scientists participated in the Amchitka study in addition to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks were: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Vanderbilt University, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, University of Pittsburgh, and University of Alberta.
		The Amchitka report editors amended their draft in response and issued a final report.
		Arthur Upton, former director of the National Cancer Institute and chair of the CRESP Review Committee on behalf of its sub-committee on Amchitka said of that draft: "The methods were well conceived, expertly applied and have produced results that are definitive and thereby enable conclusions that should be meaningful to all concerned.
	i-newswire.com /pr39771.html (1649 words)

	UW Press: Search Books in Print
		Amchitka and the Bomb looks at how these nuclear explosions were planned and conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission, in spite of vehement protests by political and civilian groups.
		Amchitka and the Bomb tells a harrowing story of the struggle of private citizens and small environmental groups to counter the weight of the federal government.
		Its concise interweaving of the military, scientific, economic, and social implications surrounding the nuclear explosions on Amchitka Island exposes the unpleasant consequences of allowing treasured national values to become victim to political necessity.
	www.washington.edu /uwpress/search/books/KOHAMC.html (578 words)

	Amchitka
		The test was especially controversial because Amchitka is located in the geographically unstable area of the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a massive fault line which encircles the globe.
		Both friends were strongly opposed to the forthcoming nuclerar test at Amchitka Island, but they were also frustrated by the lack of effective opposition coming from established ecological groups in Canada.
		Remembering a Quaker ship which had gained media attention by sailing to Bikini Atoll in 1958, Bohlen and Stowe, together with their wives Marie and Dorothy and another friend Paul Cote, formed the "Don't Make a Wave Committee," with the sole purpose of sailing a boat into the test zone and stopping the blast.
	archive.greenpeace.org /comms/vrml/rw/text/gs0002.html (319 words)

	Stories in the News - Ketchikan, AK - Energy Department Criticized For Handling of Amchitka Worker Compensation Claims
		The second major problem in the program is that individuals who are judged to be eligible for compensation are being frustrated in gaining payment because contractors who formally hired the workers are challenging the payment orders in worker compensation suits in state courts.
		In many cases the claimants are the older widows of Amchitka workers or seriously ill former workers who are facing countless hours of depositions, prehearings, document requests and other litigation tactics by well financed insurance defense counsel.
		He was 32 when he was exposed to ionizing radiation and died in 1979 at age 40 from colon cancer.
	www.sitnews.us /1103news/112203/112203_amchitka.html (722 words)

	Amchitka: the founding voyage \| Greenpeace International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When I got back from the expedition to Amchitka and sat down to write a book about it, I was convinced we had lost, and I was angry.
		The nuclear test program at Amchitka was cancelled five months after our mission, and some scholars argue that this was the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
		Whatever history decides about the big picture, the legacy of the voyage itself is not just a bunch of guys in a fishing boat, but the Greenpeace the entire world has come to love and hate.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/about/history/amchitka-hunter (1447 words)

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