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Making a Real Killing : Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
By Len Ackland
A history of the controversial Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility north of Denver, Colo., with broader look at U.S. nuclear weapons production policy during the Cold War. Ackland is a former editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is now a professor of journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
296 pages (December 1999).
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Refuge : An Unnatural History of Family and Place
by Terry Tempest Williams
The only constants in nature are change and death. Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer from northern Utah, has seen her share of both. The pages of Refuge resound with the deaths of her mother and grandmother and other women from cancer, the result of the American government's ongoing nuclear-weapons tests in the nearby Nevada desert. You won't find the episode in the standard history textbooks; the Feds wouldn't admit to conducting the tests until women and men in Utah, Nevada, and northwestern Arizona took the matter to court in the mid-1980s, and by then thousands of Americans had fallen victim to official technology. Parallel to her account of this devastation, Williams describes changes in bird life at the sanctuaries dotting the shores of the Great Salt Lake as water levels rose during the unusually wet early 1980s and threatened the nesting grounds of dozens of species. In this world of shattered eggs and drowned shorebirds, Williams reckons with the meaning of life, alternating despair and joy.
303 pages, reprint edition (September 1992)
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