Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Bibliography of Reports by State and Regional Planning Organizations
Author: Proceedings of the ... Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Conference
Author: Library Accessions
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration. Research LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Bibliography of Reports by State and Regional Planning Organizations
Author: National Resources BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Uncle Sam in the Pacific Northwest
Author: Charles McKinleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Bibliography
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Bibliography
Author: The Atomic West
Author: Bruce W. HevlyPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295800623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an “empty” place, the U.S. government located a disproportionate number of nuclear facilities—particularly the ones most likely to spread pollution—in western states. The Manhattan Project manufactured plutonium at Hanford, Washington; designed and assembled bombs at Los Alamos, New Mexico; and detonated the world’s first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on June 16, 1945. In the years that followed the war, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected additional western sites for its work. Many westerners initially welcomed the atom. Like federal officials, they, too, regarded their region as “empty,” or underdeveloped. Facilities to make, test, and base atomic weapons, sites to store nuclear waste, and even nuclear power plants were regarded as assets. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, regional attitudes began to change. At a variety of locales, ranging from Eskimo Alaska to Mormon Utah, westerners devoted themselves to resisting the atom and its effects on their environments and communities. Just as the atomic age had dawned in the American West, so its artificial sun began to set there. The Atomic West brings together contributions from several disciplines to explore the impact on the West of the development of atomic power from wartime secrecy and initial postwar enthusiasm to public doubts and protest in the 1970s and 1980s. An impressive example of the benefits of interdisciplinary studies on complex topics, The Atomic West advances our understanding of both regional history and the history of science, and does so with human communities as a significant focal point. The book will be of special interest to students and experts on the American West, environmental history, and the history of science and technology.