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So, too, is this fine book of reportage and history. It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses. More than offering a history of the plant alone, Ackland also serves up a useful summary of American nuclear poli

• Title : Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
• Author : Len Ackland
• Rating : 4.91 (589 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-2-22
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 320 Pages
• Asin : 0826318770
• Language : English

So, too, is this fine book of reportage and history. It is used to wipe out women and children and unarmed people, and not for military uses. More than offering a history of the plant alone, Ackland also serves up a useful summary of American nuclear policy in the Cold War era, noting that in 1948 the military petitioned President Truman for custody of the nations nuclear-weapons program, including Rocky Flats. The scary workings of Rocky Flats were far from ordinary. All rights reserved.. Both fires were controlled. Ackland, a former editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and now a professor of journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder, offers a history of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility just a few miles south of Boulder. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. The plant was carved from a vast cattle ranch thanks to the efforts of hawkish Senator Edwin Johnson, who, Ackland writes, embodied the peculiar relationship Westerners

It is about the Church family, who came West seeking gold in 1861, stayed to raise cattle, watched the federal government take a large piece of its land for the weapons plant in 1951--and now is busily developing real estate in the booming suburbs next to the contaminated plant site. Len Ackland's integrity and hard work remind us how crucial energetic journalism is for a successful democracy."--Patricia Nelson Limerick. Making a Real Killing examines the way Americans participated in building a nuclear weapons arsenal capable of destroying the human species. It is about the government and private corporations that produced the deadliest devices in history for thirty-seven years, concealed problems behind the wall of national security secrecy, and came close to a Chernobyl-scale disaster during a 1969 fire. It is about plant managers who cut corners to maintain weapons production, workers who saw themselves as loyal Cold War soldiers, and citizen activists who challenged the plant's very existence. To read it is to learn some sobering lessons, including the fact that the democratic process lagged decades behind technological developments."As Americans reckon with the legacy of the Cold War, Making a Real Killing deserves a place at the center of our attention. p>

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