Full name: Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident

Author: William McKeown Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781550225624 1550225626

Was the world's first fatal nuclear accident -- the 1961 explosion of a SL-1 military test reactor in Idaho -- the result of a crime of passion? Was the disaster promptly covered up to protect the burgeoning nuclear industry? Idaho Falls documents one of America's best-kept secrets and investigates the question of conspiracy. Similar books: The Code Book by Simon Singh The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Cod by Mark Kurlansky Salt by Mark Kurlansky The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Hackers by Steven Levy The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Cracking Code Book by Simon Singh The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston The Information by James Gleick Meetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham Reading the Forested Landscape by Tom Wessels Changes in the Land by William Cronon Coming of Age In The Milky Way by Timothy Ferris How to Make a Spaceship by Julian Guthrie Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson