Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, (Paperback)

from Sullywriter

A terrifying, true American horror story about growing up next to America's plutonium bomb factory, and bearing witness to the suffering caused by radioactive contamination always denied or downplayed government agencies and the corporate contractors.

from Stbalbach

Full Body Burden is yet another in a long line of devastating books about the impacts of nuclear radiation. Rocky Flats, just a few miles northwest Denver, was the primary factory for making plutonium cores used in America's nuclear weapons arsenal. Over the years there were unethical safety meas...

from mcelhra

This book had quite a bit of technical and scientific information in it, but it's written with a narrative that makes it easily readable. I didn't always understand the nitty gritty of the science that Iversen was writing about but I could understand the points she was trying to make anyway. I do...

from bookbrig

Read this book. It is so well written, and if you're looking for gripping non-fiction, it's the perfect choice. It's heartbreaking and enraging and it will have you talking the ears off anyone around you as you share what you learn in its pages. The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is becaus...

from quondame

This is not a book I enjoyed reading but Iversen's deceptively simple prose sure packs a wallop. In paralleling the interior secrets of her families silence in the face of her father's alcoholism and the ravages sustained by that with the government and community silence and denial of the damage ...