Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion, a Feared Admiral, and Rumors of a Bizarre Love Triangle Changed the Course of Nuclear History
Todd Tucker, . . Free Press, $26 (277pp) ISBN 978-1-4165-4433-3
The first major American nuclear accident wasn’t at Three Mile Island in 1979 but rather at the military’s National Reactor Testing Station at Idaho Falls, Idaho, in January 1961, killing three workers at the tiny reactor. Two of these men were later rumored incorrectly to have been rivals in a love triangle—which some conjectured might have affected their ability to work effectively and safely at the facility. Tucker (
Reviewed on: 01/05/2009
Genre: Nonfiction
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