The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement by Dan O'Neill

The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement

Dan O'Neill

418 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative tense slow-paced
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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 nu...

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