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Provides personal accounts of people who were raised during the Cold War and of those who were directly in contact with nuclear weapons during World War II, the Korean War, and the Persian Gulf War, focusing on the health and environmental hazards of nuclear weapons.
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"This anthology will be a wake-up call for those who fail to learn the lessons of history."--Library Journal"A harrowing collection." --Booklist"That eerie claustrophobia, the fry-in-a-flash fear that kept Uncle Sam's kids' heads between their knees as the sirens wailed, runs all the way through the 24 essays in Learning to Glow--a collection of intimate, anecdotal comebacks to the Atomic Energy Commission's cynical reassurances that the split atom is our friend." --Rain Taxi
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John Bradley is an award-winning poet who also edited the volume Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age. He teaches writing at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
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University of Arizona Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0816519552
ISBN 13: 9780816519552
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