The Firecracker Boys : H-bombs, Inupiat Eskimos and the roots of the environmental movement
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The Firecracker Boys : H-bombs, Inupiat Eskimos and the roots of the environmental movement
Basic Books, [2007?]
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Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994
Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-402) and index
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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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