Book ID: CBB001213272

Full Body Burden: Growing up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012)

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Iversen, Kristen (Author)


Crown Publishers


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 400 pp.; ill.
Language: English

"A narrative report by a woman who grew up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility describes the secrets that dominated her childhood, the strange cancers that afflicted her neighbors, her brief employment at Rocky Flats, and the efforts of residents to achieve legal justice." -- Publisher's description.

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Authors & Contributors
Higuchi, Toshihiro
Gabriele Schwab
Nikolas Dörr
Skloot, Rebecca
Fox, Sarah Alisabeth
Stacy, Ian
Journals
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Journal of Asian Studies
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Environmental History
Publishers
University of Minnesota Press
Viking
University of Nebraska Press
Stanford University Press
Springer
Routledge
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Nuclear and radioactive waste
Technology and society
Biographies
Cold War
Technology and politics
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Sears, Paul Bigelow
Abelson, Philip Hauge,
Teller, Edward
Grimmett, Leonard George
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Japan
Germany
China
Great Britain
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
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