Publications

You can find out more about the US government's nuclear weapons development and testing programs in these publications, including information on Downwinders and atomic veterans:

Downwinders®

• American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War by Carole Gallagher
• Downwinders: An Atomic Tale by Curtis Oberhansly
• Justice Downwind: America's Atomic Testing Program in the 1950s by Howard Ball
• Doom Towns: The People and Landscapes of Atomic Testing, A Graphic History (Graphic History Series) by Andrew G. Kirk
• The Day We Bombed Utah by John G. Fuller
• Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy by Philip L. Fradkin
• Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing by Richard L. Miller

Uranium Workers

• If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans by Peter H. Eichstaedt
• Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country by Traci Brynne Voyles
• Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos by Judy Pasternak
• The Navajo People and Uranium Mining by Doug Brugge
• Yellowcake Towns - Uranium Mining Communities in the American West (Mining the American West) by Michael A. Amundson
• Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner

Atomic Veterans®

• Invisible Enemies of Atomic Veterans: And How They Were Betrayed by John D. Bankston
• Atomic Soldiers by Howard Rosenberg
• Killing our own: The disaster of America's experience with atomic radiation by Harvey Wasserman
• Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll by Jonathan M. Weisgall
• Bombs over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear Disaster (Nonfiction - Young Adult) by Connie Goldsmith
• Bombing the Marshall Islands: A Cold War Tragedy by Keith M. Parsons
• Day of Two Suns: U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders by Jane Dibblin
• For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and their Islands by Jack Niedenthal

Department of Energy Workers

• The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
• Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal by Michael D'Antonio

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