Downwinders of Utah Archive: An archive depicting the impacts to Utah downwinders from nuclear weapons testing conducted at the Nevada Test Site.

Resources

A list of material collections, external resources and suggested reading materials related to Downwinders and this archive.

Books

  • A History of U.S. Nuclear Testing and its Influence on Nuclear Thought, (1945-1963) - David M. Blades and Joseph M. Siracusa (2014)
  • American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War - Carole Gallagher (1953)
  • Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race - Richard Rhodes (2008)
  • Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 - Stephen Schwartz (1998)
  • Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics - C. Constandina Titus (2001)
  • Doom Towns: The People and Landscapes of Atomic Testing, A Graphic History - Andrew G. Kirk and Kristian Purcell (2016)
  • Downwind: A People History of the Nuclear West - Sarah Alizabeth Fox (2014)
  • Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation - Richard Solomon and Harvey Wasserman (2013)
  • Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy - Philip L. Fradkin (2004)
  • Folding Paper Cranes - Leonard Bird (2005)
  • Half Lives and Half Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War - Barbara Rose Johnston (2007)
  • Nuclear Weapons in the Cold War - Dr. Harold L. Brode and Larry MacDonald (2014)
  • Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site the First Decade - John C. Hopkins and Barbara Germain Killian (2013)
  • Report on Search for Human Radiation Experiment Records (1944 - 1994) - United States Department of Defense (1997)
    • Vol 1 & 2 are available from the United States Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service
  • The Day We Bombed Utah - John G. Fuller (1984)
  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes (1986)
  • They Never Knew: The Victims of Nuclear Testing - Glen Alan Cheney (1996)
  • Trace Elements: Mapping the Great Basin and its Peripheries - Michael McLane (2015)
  • U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout (1951-1970), Vol 1: Total Fallout - Richard Miller (2006)
  • U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout (1951-1970), Vol 2: Eastern United States - Richard Miller (2006)
  • U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout (1951-1970), Vol 3: County Comparisons - Richard Miller (2006)
  • U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout (1951-1970), Vol 4: Western United States - Richard Miller (2006)
  • U.S. Atlas of Nuclear Fallout (1951-1970), Vol 5: Calculations - Richard Miller (2006)

Studies

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