Book Description
The youngest and only woman member of the original team of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project recounts the scientific, personal, and ethical problems encountered by those who built the first nuclear reactor.
Author : Leona Marshall Libby
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
The youngest and only woman member of the original team of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project recounts the scientific, personal, and ethical problems encountered by those who built the first nuclear reactor.
Author : Tom Zoellner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780670020645
A history of the powerful mineral element explores its role as a virtually limitless energy source, its controversial applications as a healing tool and weapon, and the ways in which its reputation has been used to promote war agendas in the middle east.
Author : Doug Brugge
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780826337795
Based on statements given to the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, this revealing book assesses the effects of uranium mining on the reservation beginning in the 1940s.
Author : Leona Marshall Libby (climatologue).)
Publisher :
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
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Author : Sarah Alisabeth Fox
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803269498
Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for human and animal life through nuclear testing by the federal government and uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War. Sarah Alisabeth Fox highlights the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West through extensive interviews with “downwinders,” the Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region affected by nuclear environmental contamination and nuclear-testing fallout. These downwinders tell tales of communities ravaged by cancer epidemics, farmers and ranchers economically ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and Native miners working in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment so that the government could surreptitiously study the effects of radiation on humans. In chilling detail Downwind brings to light the stories and concerns of these groups whose voices have been silenced and marginalized for decades in the name of “patriotism” and “national security.” With the renewed boom in mining in the American West, Fox’s look at this hidden history, unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research, and epidemiological studies, is a must-read for every American concerned about the fate of our western lands and communities.
Author : Denise Kiernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451617534
Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
Author : Judy Pasternak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1416594833
Tells the story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its legacy of sickness and government neglect, documenting one of the darker chapters in 20th century American history. --From publisher description.
Author : Kristen Iversen
Publisher : Crown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307955656
“An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentary Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
The drastic health and environmental consequences of a new generation of radioactive weapons, Depleted Uranium (DU), currently being used in U.S.-waged wars are discussed in these essays. This new kind of nuclear war is examined alongside the effects on Vietnam and Gulf war veterans and the indigenous people on whose land these weapons are being tested. Among the issues covered are the collaborative military and media cover-up of DU, the government's denial of DU's toxic effects, uranium development on Native American land, nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands, and radioactive residue in the Middle East. Contributors include Ramsey Clark, Pat Broudy, and Helen Caldicott. Official government documents on DU and its effects and charts illustrating where DU is tested and stored in the United States are included for further examination.
Author : Peter H. Eichstaedt
Publisher : Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
"The untold story of the Native Americans who were the patriotic but unwitting victims of America's quest for nuclear superiority during the Cold War." Stewart L. Udall, former Secretary of the Interior (from the back cover).