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The atomic West / edited by Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography ; 7Publication details: Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, c1998.Description: x, 286 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0295977167 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Atomic West : region and nation, 1942-1992 / Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay -- Grand Coulee and Hanford : the atomic bomb and the development of the Columbia River / Robert E. Ficken -- General Groves and the atomic West : the making and meaning of Hanford / Stanley Goldberg -- Building the atomic cities : Richland, Los Alamos, and the American planning language / Carl Abbott -- University of California, the federal weapons labs, and the founding of the atomic West / Gregg Herken -- James L. Tuck : scientific polymath and eternal optimist of the atomic West / Ferenc M. Szasz -- "Hotter than a $2 pistol" : fallout, sheep, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1986 / Barton C. Hacker -- Alaska and the firecracker boys : the story of project Chariot / Dan O'Neill -- Radical initiatives and moderate alternatives : California's 1976 nuclear safeguards initiative / Thomas Wellock -- Antinuclear activism in the Pacific Northwest : WPPSS and its enemies / Daniel Pope -- Air Force, western Shoshone, and Mormon rhetoric of place and the MX conflict / Matthew Glass.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks QC773.3.U5A85 1998 1 Available 33710000999297

Includes index.

Atomic West : region and nation, 1942-1992 / Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay -- Grand Coulee and Hanford : the atomic bomb and the development of the Columbia River / Robert E. Ficken -- General Groves and the atomic West : the making and meaning of Hanford / Stanley Goldberg -- Building the atomic cities : Richland, Los Alamos, and the American planning language / Carl Abbott -- University of California, the federal weapons labs, and the founding of the atomic West / Gregg Herken -- James L. Tuck : scientific polymath and eternal optimist of the atomic West / Ferenc M. Szasz -- "Hotter than a $2 pistol" : fallout, sheep, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1986 / Barton C. Hacker -- Alaska and the firecracker boys : the story of project Chariot / Dan O'Neill -- Radical initiatives and moderate alternatives : California's 1976 nuclear safeguards initiative / Thomas Wellock -- Antinuclear activism in the Pacific Northwest : WPPSS and its enemies / Daniel Pope -- Air Force, western Shoshone, and Mormon rhetoric of place and the MX conflict / Matthew Glass.