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Cargando... Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear Westpor Sarah Alisabeth Fox
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"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 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Sarah Alisabeth Fox has not simply written another account of the extensive damage caused by the mining of uranium and the atmospheric testing of atomic bombs in the American southwest in the 1950s and early 1960s. Instead, she explores how conservative, relatively docile patriots came to feel angry and betrayed by their government and how they created a movement to address their needs. Using first-hand accounts, Fox examines how experiences with their desert environment lead people to dismiss the assuring, but false promises that there was nothing to fear. Fox is interested not only in what happened but in the process that radicalized the victims.
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