James L. Tuck: Scientific Polymath and Eternal Optimist of the Atomic West

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. The Atomic West: Region and Nation, 1942-1992 1
5. Grand Coulee and Hanford: The Atomic Bomb and the Development of the Columbia River 21
6. General Groves and the Atomic West: The Making and the Meaning of Hanford 39
7. Building the Atomic Cities: Richland, Los Alamos, and the American Planning Language 90
8. The University of California, the Federal Weapons Labs, and the Founding of the Atomic West 119
9. James L. Tuck: Scientific Polymath and Eternal Optimist of the Atomic West 136
10. "Hotter Than a $2 Pistol" Fallout, Sheep, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1986 157
11. Alaska and the Firecracker Boys: The Story of Project Chariot 179
12. Radical Initiatives and Moderate Alternatives: California's 1976 Nuclear Safeguards Initiative 200
13. Antinuclear Activism in the Pacific Northwest: WPPSS and Its Enemies 236
14. Air Force, Western Shoshone, and Mormon Rhetoric of Place and the MX Conflict 255
15. Contributors 276
16. Index 279