I’m come across so many great books that I want to tell folks about; some I’ve read multiple times; others I’ve just dipped into. So I want to start keep a log, well I should say a blog of books I stumble upon.
Here’s one:
The potential nuclear disaster in Japan and their history with being the victim of the atomic bomb reminded me today of a book on my shelf by Paul Loeb written twenty-five years ago about Hanford. It’s called “Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World’s Largest Atomic Complex.”
from the back cover:
“Nuclear Culture is the compelling account of the growth of the Hanford (Washington) Nuclear Reservation, the birth of the atomic bomb and the culture which it spawned, seen through the eyes of the participants. Here we meet a hight school football team — ‘The Bombers’ — whose helmets feature a mushroom cloud; bridge clubs, Brownie troops and PTAs living virtually in the shadow of A-bomb factories; and workers who find building weapons of mass destruction to be ‘just another job.’ Paul Loeb’s riveting profile reminds us as few books can just how shocking our normal existence under the nuclear umbrella has really become.”
