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Radioactive Dixie is a dynamic, engaging, and very needed addition to the field of energy history that shows how communities and environments in the American south were integral to the strange story of mid century nuclear research and development. -- Sarah Stanford-McIntyre * author of Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil and the Rise of Sunbelt Texas * Caroline Peyton’s cogent, deeply-researched narrative shows us how closely the political and economic ambitions of the postwar U.S. South were tied to the atom and its promises of growth, abundance, and prosperity. -- Jacob Darwin Hamblin * author of The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology *

Radioactive Dixie is a dynamic, engaging, and very needed addition to the field of energy history that shows how communities and environments in the American south were integral to the strange story of mid century nuclear research and development. -- Sarah Stanford-Mcintyre * author of Natural Risk: An Environmental History of West Texas Oil and the Rise of Sunbelt Texas *

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CAROLINE ROSE PEYTON is a historian of the American South, whose research specializes in the intersection of environment, technology, and society. In 2017, she was awarded the American Society for Environmental History’s Alice Hamilton Prize for the best article published outside Environmental History and the Southern Historical Association’s Jack Temple Kirby Prize for “Kentucky’s ‘Atomic Graveyard’: Maxey Flats and Environmental Inequity in Rural America,” published in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society.

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