Downwind : a people's history of the nuclear West / / Sarah Alisabeth Fox

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807985203321
• Autore: Fox Sarah Alisabeth <1981->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, England : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4962-0766-1; 0-8032-6950-1; 0-8032-6949-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.7380978
• Soggetti: Uranium miners - Health and hygiene - West (U.S.); Uranium mines and mining - Health aspects - Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah; Nuclear weapons testing victims - West (U.S.); Nuclear weapons - Testing - West (U.S.) - History; Nuclear weapons - Testing - Health aspects; Radioactive fallout - Health aspects - West (U.S.); Radiation - Health aspects - West (U.S.); BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE - General; HISTORY - United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Nuclear industry - Health aspects; Nuclear weapons testing victims; Radiation - Health aspects; Uranium miners - Health and hygiene; Uranium mines and mining - Health aspects; West United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Living under the cloud -- Unearthing yellow monsters -- Home on the range -- Locally grown -- Writing down names -- Critical mass -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In this incredibly important book, Sarah Alisabeth Fox effectively shows how the stories of regular people are to be trusted more than the words of the government and the experts when the latter are lying in a misguided attempt to protect national security."-Doug Brugge, professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine<DIV></DIV>