New to the Shelf!

At a recent event at one of our favorite bookstores, we had the opportunity to discover a compelling new author who is also writing about the effects of Cold War nuclear activities on people and politics today.

When she moved to Utah as a young woman, Sarah Alisabeth Fox became an unwilling witness to the personal cost of nuclear testing and uranium extraction in the American West during and after the Cold War.

Downwind tells the stories of Native American and non-Native residents of the Great Basin region whose communities were ravaged by cancer epidemics, whose farms and ranchs were ruined by massive crop and animal deaths, and whose Native miners worked in dangerous conditions without proper safety equipment.

Unearthed from years of field interviews, archival research and epidemiological studies, Dowwind "brings home the truth that all wars--no matter how conceptual they may seem--occur in actual places, where actual people live, grow food and raise children." ---from Downwind, A People's History of the Nuclear West

Request it at your local independent bookstore.

www.downwindhistory.com