Uranium frenzy : saga of the nuclear west /

Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, Uranium Frenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated by the U.S. government's need for uranium to fuel its growing atomic weapons program, st...

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Main Author: Ringholz, Raye Carleson
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2002.
Edition:Rev. and expanded ed.
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