Uranium frenzy : saga of the nuclear west /

Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, Uranium Frenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated by the U.S. government's need for uranium to fuel its growing atomic weapons program, st...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ringholz, Raye Carleson
Μορφή: Licensed eBooks
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Έκδοση: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press ©2002.
Έκδοση:Rev. and expanded ed.
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt46nrrx
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • The siren call
  • The European experience
  • The dawn's early light
  • Deadly daughters
  • Bonanza at Big Indian
  • Uranium frenzy
  • Dirty Harry
  • The burden of proof
  • The future of America
  • The colossus of cash
  • Success and subpoenas
  • The bubble bursts
  • Leetso the monster that kills
  • The American experience
  • Senator Steen
  • A widow fights back
  • Full circle
  • A standard is set
  • Compassionate compensation
  • Aftermath.