If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans

Présentation de l'éditeur The supply of uranium that fueled the Cold War came largely from the Four Corners area of the Colorado Plateau. Some of the richest deposits were found on the Navajo Reservation, where about one-fourth of the miners and millers were Native Americans. For nearly three decades in the face of growing evidence that uranium mining was dangerous, state and federal agencies neglected to warn the miners or to impose safety measures in the mines. Biographie de l'auteur Peter H. Eichstaedt is an award-winning reporter who has written extensively on radioactive waste problems and political, cultural, and social issues. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.