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The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement

The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement

O'Neill, Dan

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Technology & Engineering20th Century United States HistoryWeapons of Mass Destruction

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ISBN10: 0465003486
ISBN13: 9780465003488
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Nov 6 2007
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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. 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. The Firecracker Boys is a story of the U.S. government's arrogance and deception, and the brave people who fought against it-launching America's environmental movement. 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.

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