Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History

Author: Todd Tucker (2009)

Historian Todd Tucker investigates the story of the only fatal nuclear meltdown in US history, which took place at a testing station in rural Idaho in 1961.  “A shocking tale of negligence and subterfuge... the Army and its contractors had deliberately obscured the true cases of this terrible accident, the result of poor engineering as much as uncontrolled passions.”