Atomic Harvest; Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 304 pages. Illustrations. Index. Foreword by Stewart Udall. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Michael D'Antonio is an American author, journalist, and commentator on CNN. He shared the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting with a team of Newsday reporters for their coverage of the Baby Jane Doe Case. He has written over a dozen books, including Never Enough, a 2015 biography of Donald Trump, and A Consequential President, a 2017 book on the Presidency of Barack Obama. His book Mortal Sins was a 2004 Edgar Award nominee. D'Antonio graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1977. He wrote for the Dover Democrat in New Hampshire from 1976 to 1977, and the Portland Press Herald in Maine from 1977 to 1983 before joining Newsday as a writer, where he worked from 1983 to 1990. Derived from a Kirkus review: In 1942, the US government chose a sere plain in eastern Washington to locate its principal nuclear experimentation facility. Once the feds had secured the land from its residents, the scientists at Hanford managed, in less than two years, to put together the first atomic bomb. Shrouded in secrecy and exempt from outside monitoring, Hanford went its plutonium-enriching way with the advent of the cold war. But with a soaring cancer rate, infant mortality on a mean upswing, and the appearance of deformed sheep, a small number of locals demanded an accounting. Though stonewalled by the government and menaced by strangers, they kept digging, and it's their story that D'Antonio handles in thrilling fashion: how they secured secret documents, convinced the wary to speak out, and subverted the system from within. What these citizens exposed was appalling: huge pools containing highly radioactive sludge; poisoned soil; vast airborne emissions of toxic gases--and many of those living downwind will end up paying the highest price. Hanford can lay claim to the ugliest legacy of all--and D'Antonio chronicles it with such force that his pages fairly buzz with his outrage. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Hanford, Nuclear Weapons, Weapons Plants, Environment, Washington State, Radiation, Toxicology, Richland, WA, Casey Ruud, Tom Bailie, Cold War, Department of Energy, PUREX, Karen Steele
ISBN: 0517589818
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Price: $45.00