The Atomic West (Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography)

by John M. Findlay (Author), Bruce W. Hevly (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $37.90

  The Manhattan Project transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region in the same way. Atomic West tells the story of how the U.S. government, acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an empty place, located a disproportionate number of nuclear facilities in the western states--especially the ones most likely to spread pollution. Maps.