by Ann Ronald
University of Nevada Press, 2011
Cloth: 978-0-87417-825-8 | eISBN: 978-0-87417-832-6 | Paper: 978-0-87417-860-9
Library of Congress Classification PS3568.O56583F75 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Friendly Fallout 1953 is a hybrid work of literature that combines the actual history of aboveground atomic testing in the Nevada desert in 1953 with fictional vignettes that explore the impact of the tests on the people who participated in them and on civilian "downwinders." The book brings to life a turbulent era when Cold War fears, patriotic enthusiasm, scientific progress, and unacknowledged political agendas often collided with the welfare of ordinary citizens and the environment.