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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
©2002.
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| Edizione: | Rev. and expanded ed. |
| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt46nrrx |
Sommario:
- 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.