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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yellow Dirt offers readers a window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today. From the 1940s into the early twenty-first century, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe for the sake of atomic bombs. Secretly, during the days of the Manhattan Project and then in a frenzy during the Cold War, the government bought up all the uranium that could be mined from the hundreds of rich deposits entombed under...
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