The Manhattan Project transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region in the same way. "Atomic West" tells the story of how the U.S. government, acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an "empty" place, located a disproportionate number of nuclear facilities in the western states--especially the ones most likely to spread pollution. Maps.
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Ever since World War II, when plutonium was manufactured in Hanford, WA, and the atomic bomb was designed and tested in New Mexico, the U.S. government has placed a number of nuclear facilities in the American West. How the development of atomic power affected this region is the subject of these two very different books. The Atomic West is a collection of papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Center for the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington. The well-documented articles examine both the promise and the problems of the Manhattan Project. Offering the perspective of someone who lives in the region, award-winning nature writer Meloy (Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River, LJ 6/15/94) visited the Trinity Site, Los Alamos, and the sites of uranium mining. She describes the landscape and the effects of radiation on the area's plants and animals. Both books fill niches in history of science collections. Meloy's offers insight for the nonspecialist and is recommended to public libraries, especially regional collections. The Atomic West is for larger academic libraries.?Dale Ebersole Jr., Univ. of Toledo Lib., OH
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Writing to political friends in March 1943, an indiscreet congressional staffer revealed details of the nation's most hush-hush military undertaking, a project bound to have a transforming impact on the Pacific Northwest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Los Alamos, New York, Manhattan Project, United States, Corps of Engineers, Pacific Northwest, Great Basin, Columbia River, Sierra Club, University of California, Atomic Energy Commission, Grand Coulee, Oak Ridge, Project Chariot, World War, New Mexico, Supply System, Creative Initiative, Columbia Basin, Edward Teller, Point Hope, Cold War, James Tuck, San Francisco, Bonneville Power Administration New!
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Writing to political friends in March 1943, an indiscreet congressional staffer revealed details of the nation's most hush-hush military undertaking, a project bound to have a transforming impact on the Pacific Northwest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nuclear bills, pronuclear forces, nuclear initiative, sheep deaths, net billing, sheep losses, mass insurgency, antinuclear protest, antinuclear activists, ball lightning, antinuclear movement, power controversy, weapons labs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Alamos, New York, Manhattan Project, United States, Corps of Engineers, Pacific Northwest, Great Basin, Columbia River, Sierra Club, University of California, Atomic Energy Commission, Grand Coulee, Oak Ridge, Project Chariot, World War, New Mexico, Supply System, Creative Initiative, Columbia Basin, Edward Teller, Point Hope, Cold War, James Tuck, San Francisco, Bonneville Power Administration New!
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- Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Quality Paperbacks Series) by General Leslie R. Groves on 10 pages
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes on 6 pages
- The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945 by Ferenc Morton Szasz on 5 pages
- Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb by Stephane Groueff on page 77, page 79, and page 80
- The Antinuclear Movement (Social Movements Past and Present) by Jerome Brian Price on page 227, page 232, and page 251
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- Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest At Diablo Canyon by John Wills on 4 pages
- The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974 by Peter J. Westwick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Breakdown : How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb Was Stolen by Richard Melzer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Landscapes of Conflict (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by William G. Robbins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War by Michael D. Gordin in Back Matter
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