Downwind : a people's history of the nuclear West /

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An unflinching tale 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 extracti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fox, Sarah Alisabeth, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Uranium miners > Health and hygiene > West (U.S.)
Uranium mines and mining > Health aspects > Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.
Nuclear weapons testing victims > West (U.S.)
Nuclear weapons > Testing > Health aspects.
Nuclear industry > Health aspects > West (U.S.)
Radiation > Health aspects > West (U.S.)
Radiation
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Nuclear industry > Health aspects.
Nuclear weapons testing victims.
Radiation > Health aspects.
Uranium miners > Health and hygiene.
Uranium mines and mining > Health aspects.
United States
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
West United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Living under the cloud
  • Unearthing yellow monsters
  • Home on the range
  • Locally grown
  • Writing down names
  • Critical mass
  • Conclusion.

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