Romancing the atom

Description:

The book consists of ten nonfiction historical vignettes, including the women radium dial painters of the 1920s, the expulsion of the Bikini Island residents to create a massive "petri dish" for post-World War II bomb and radiation testing, the government-subsidized uranium rush of the 1950s and its effects on Native American communities, and the secret radioactive material development facilities in residential neighborhoods. In addition, the book includes original interviews of prominent historians, writers, and private citizens involved with these poignant stories. Go to www.romancingtheatom

subjects: Radium,  Uranium,  Nuclear industry,  Deceit,  Secrecy,  Fukushima,  Atomic bomb,  History

People: Alert Einstein,  Franklin Roosevelt,  Harry Truman

Places: United States,  Bikini Islands,  Navajo Lands,  Fukushima

Times: 20th century to present