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Author: Dean W. Kohlhoff
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9780295982557
ISBN 10: 0295982551
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 August 2002
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Kohlhoff offers an interesting account of the destruction of a 'wilderness natural area' as the result of WWII, the Cold War, and the testing of nuclear weapons... This book will interest those concerned with the impact of 'civilization' on nature and nature's creatures as well as the interaction of different bureaucracies. Choice
Amchitka and the Bomb will be an important contribution to environmental and Alaska studies and to national defense studies. Stephen Haycox, University of Alaska, Anchorage Amchitka and the Bomb reconstructs thoroughly the decision by the Atomic Energy Commission to use Amchitka Island in the Aleutians as a test site for nuclear missile weaponry ... utterly disregarding the fact that the island was a wildlife refuge. It will be an important contribution to environmental and Alaska studies and to national defense studies. Stephen Haycox, University of Alaska, Anchorage Amchitka and the Bomb is an important, original, and well-crafted work, one that will find a ready audience because it speaks to some of the main themes currently being explored by historians of Alaska, nuclear weapons and the Cold War. Bruce Hevly, University of Washington
""Amchitka and the Bomb will be an important contribution to environmental and Alaska studies and to national defense studies."" Stephen Haycox, University of Alaska, Anchorage ""Amchitka and the Bomb reconstructs thoroughly the decision by the Atomic Energy Commission to use Amchitka Island in the Aleutians as a test site for nuclear missile weaponry ... utterly disregarding the fact that the island was a wildlife refuge. It will be an important contribution to environmental and Alaska studies and to national defense studies."" Stephen Haycox, University of Alaska, Anchorage ""Amchitka and the Bomb is an important, original, and well-crafted work, one that will find a ready audience because it speaks to some of the main themes currently being explored by historians of Alaska, nuclear weapons and the Cold War."" Bruce Hevly, University of Washington
Author Information
Dean Kohlhoff (1933-1997) was a professor of history at Valparaiso University in Indiana for 30 years. His other publications include When the Wind Was a River, the story of the military evacuation of Aleut residents of Attu Island in World War II.
