The atomic West / edited by Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Atomic West: Region and Nation, 1942-1992 / Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay -- I. Building a Federal Presence. Grand Coulee and Hanford: The Atomic Bomb and the Development of the Columbia River / Robert E. Ficken. General Groves and the Atomic West: The Making and the Meaning of Hanford / Stanley Goldberg. Building the Atomic Cities: Richland, Los Alamos, and the American Planning Language / Carl Abbott -- II. The Atomic Energy Commission at Work. The University of California, the Federal Weapons Labs, and the Founding of the Atomic West / Gregg Herken. James L. Tuck: Scientific Polymath and Eternal Optimist of the Atomic West / Ferenc M. Szasz. "Hotter Than a $2 Pistol": Fallout, Sheep, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1986 / Barton C. Hacker -- III. Local Resistance. Alaska and the Firecracker Boys: The Story of Project Chariot / Dan O'Neill. Radical Initiatives and Moderate Alternatives: California's 1976 Nuclear Safeguards Initiative / Thomas Wellock.

Antinuclear Activism in the Pacific Northwest: WPPSS and Its Enemies / Daniel Pope. Air Force, Western Shoshone, and Mormon Rhetoric of Place and the MX Conflict / Matthew Glass.