Nuked

Reviews / Votes

Nuked explores the painful and disturbing legacy of the atomic age in the suburbs of St. Louis. . . . The story of what happened there adds an important-and largely overlooked-dimension to the history of the atomic age. -- Natasha Zaretsky * author of Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s * An almost totally unknown history of one aspect of the Manhattan Project . . . It is about official secrecy and the slow uncovering of the secrets by different groups over quite a long period of time, made all the more powerful by the fact that the author's own family's tragic personal histories are bound up with the radioactive contamination. -- Janet Farrell Brodie * author of The Trinity Site National Historic Landmark: A History * Morice pushes the story further, looking at how local government fragmentation played a role in limiting the response, how building and environmental practices at the time contributed, and how government and corporate secrecy and lies kept the public in the dark. -- Roland Klose * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * In the absence of such hard-to-grasp quantities as 580 square miles, 54 million gallons, and $528 billion, Nuked provides a more intimate human portrait. -- John M. Findlay * Missouri Historical Review * Linda Morice's Nuked underscores the urgency of addressing those issues, giving readers a searing glimpse into the ongoing, decades-long crisis in Missouri, filling an important gap in US nuclear history. -- Caroline R. Peyton * Environmental History * Reading Nuked was a gift of witnessing what it means to be, become, and belong in The Nuclear Age. To witness, to learn, to acknowledge, and to realize that in this nuclear era, I am Nuked. We are all Nuked. -- Roy Tamashiro * Vitae Scholasticae * Nuked provides a greater understanding of natural resource use. It also sheds light on the people who have been and continue to be exposed to the waste that is a byproduct of that use, and in this way, the book fills a gap left by films like Oppenheimer. -- Frederick H. Turner * Natural Resources & Environment *