The Firecracker Boys - H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement - Dan O'neill - Paperback Bog - Basic Books - 2007 -

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In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However, the plan was blocked by a handful of Eskimos and biologists who succeeded in preventing massive nuclear devastation potentially far greater than that of the Chernobyl blast. The Firecracker Boys is a story of the U.S. government''s arrogance and deception, and the brave people who fought against it-launching America''s environmental movement. As one of Alaska''s most prominent authors, Dan O''Neill brings to these pages his love of Alaska''s landscape, his skill as a nature and science writer, and his determination to expose one of the most shocking chapters of the Nuclear Age.