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The Atomic West: Region and Nation, 1942-1992 - Bruce Hevly and John Findlay
I. BUILDING A FEDERAL PRESENCE
Grand Coulee and Hanford: The Atomic Bomb and the Development of the Columbia River - Robert Ficken
General Groves and the Atomic West: The Making and Meaning of Hanford - Stanley Goldberg
Building the Atomic Cities: Richland, Los Alamos, and the American Planning Language -Carl Abbott
II. THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AT WORK
The University of California, the Federal Weapons Labs, and the Founding of the Atomic West - Greg Herken
James L. Tuck: Scientific Polymath and Eternal Optimist of the Atomic West - Ferenc Szasz
"Hotter Than a $2 Pistol": Fallout, Sheep, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1986 - Barton Hacker
III. LOCAL RESISTANCE
Alaska and the Frecracker Boys: The Story of Project Chariot - Dan O'Neill
Radical Initiatives and Moderate Alternatives: California's 1976 Nuclear Safeguards Initiative - Thomas Wellock
Antinuclear Activism in the Pacific Northwest: WPPSS and Its Enemies - Daniel Pope
Air Force, Western Shoshone, and Mormon Rhetoric of Place and the MX Conflict - Matthew Glass
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