The Atomic West

, by Hevly, Bruce William; Findlay, John M.

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ISBN: 9780295977164 | 0295977167
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/1/1998

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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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Acknowledgments
The Atomic West: Region and Nation, 1942-1992	p. 3
Building a Federal Presence
Grand Coulee and Hanford: The Atomic Bomb and the Development of the Columbia River	p. 21
General Groves and the Atomic West: The Making and the Meaning of Hanford	p. 39
Building the Atomic Cities: Richland, Los Alamos, and the American Planning Language	p. 90
The Atomic Energy Commission at Work
The University of California, the Federal Weapons Labs, and the Founding of the Atomic West	p. 119
James L. Tuck: Scientific Polymath and Eternal Optimist of the Atomic West	p. 136
"Hotter Than a $2 Pistol": Fallout, Sheep, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1986	p. 157
Local Resistance
Alaska and the Firecracker Boys: The Story of Project Chariot	p. 179
Radical Initiatives and Moderate Alternatives: California's 1976 Nuclear Safeguards Initiative	p. 200
Antinuclear Activism in the Pacific Northwest: WPPSS and Its Enemies	p. 236
Air Force, Western Shoshone, and Mormon Rhetoric of Place and the MX Conflict	p. 255
Contributors	p. 276
Index	p. 279
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