The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (733 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00EFCW1GA |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Well Written and Researched Cautionary Tale A Customer Behind the blithe title of this book is a serious work. More, it's an important book. Its subject is Project Chariot, a proposed nuclear excavation on Alaska's Bering Strait. Project Plowshare, initiated in the late 50's, was the umbrella effort to put nuclear explosions to work for non-military purposes, and Project Chariot was billed as one of i. Essential, scary reading Thomas J. Haslam About a fascinating chapter in American history, and how the democratic process prevailed--barely--over the certain vested interests in the military-industrial complex. Makes Dwight Eisenhower look like a prophet--and also details some of the career of Edward Tellar, rightly celebrated as the father of the American H-bomb but then subsequently res. "Creepy" according to Ben Meyer. I cannot help but notcice how the reviewers which seem to have been deeply disgusted by this book prefer to remain anonymous. Even if their opinion is that nuclear testing should continue, it disturbs me that these reviewers were not taken aback by the colossal mountain of half-truths, misrepresentations, and downright lies that the AEC (Atomic En
O'Neill periodically breaks from the political wrangling to limn in glorious detail the richness of Arctic wildlife and Eskimo culture, rendering absurd the government promises to relocate natives and turn them into ``productive'' coal miners. For the first time, the Feds (obsessed with Reds) had to consider a people's irreplaceable loss of their ``way of life.'' Federal money for an O'Neill film on Project Chariot disappeared, but this book became his eloquent revenge. Eyebrow- and consciousness-raising at its ecological best. All rights reserved.. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. From Kirkus Reviews The story of how we nearly Chernobylized our northwest Alaskan wilderness. (O'Neill delights in
As one of Alaska's most prominent authors, Dan O'Neill brings to these pages his love of Alaska's landscape, his skill as a nature and science writer, and his determination to expose one of the most shocking chapters of the Nuclear Age.. However, the plan was blocked by a handful of Eskimos and biologists who succeeded in preventing massive nuclear devastation potentially far greater than that of the Chernobyl blast. In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. government's arrogance and deception, and the brave people who fought against it--launching America's environmental movement. The Firecracker Boys is a story of
Dan O'Neill is the author of A Land Gone Lonesomeand The Last Giant of Beringia. . He lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. He was named Alaska Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society for The Firecracker Boys