Making a Real Killing

Making a Real Killing
Author :
Publisher : UNM Press
Total Pages : 332
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0826318770
ISBN-13 : 9780826318770
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Making a Real Killing by : Len Ackland

Download or read book Making a Real Killing written by Len Ackland and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is about the government and private corporations that produced the deadliest devices in history for thirty-seven years, concealed problems behind the wall of national security secrecy, and came close to a Chernobyl-scale disaster during a 1969 fire. It is about plant managers who cut corners to maintain weapons production, workers who saw themselves as loyal Cold War soldiers, and citizen activists who challenged the plant's very existence.


Making a Real Killing Related Books

Making a Real Killing
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Len Ackland
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: UNM Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A chilling, fast-moving study of the nuclear weapons plant in the Denver suburbs, told through the experiences of managers, workers, activists, and neighbors wh
Making a Killing
Language: en
Pages: 53
Authors: James Ashcroft
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Random House

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 'Making a Killing', Ashcroft provides a first-hand view of the secret world of private security in Iraq where ex-soldiers employed to protect US and British
Kill Anything That Moves
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Nick Turse
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-15 - Publisher: Macmillan

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Based on classified documents and interviews, argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War were a perva
A Killing in the Real World
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Chris Bohjalian
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: St Martins Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Lisa Stone joins forces with young Manhattan homicide detective Richard Heckler after her former college roommate is brutally murdered with a pornographer/drug
Killing Monsters
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Gerard Jones
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-04 - Publisher: Basic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Children choose their heroes more carefully than we think. From Pokemon to the rapper Eminem, pop-culture icons are not simply commercial pied pipers who practi