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Making a Real Killing

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Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear Westis a 1999 book byLen Ackland.[1]Ackland draws on information obtained from governmental sources, federal contractors, personal interviews, and newspaper articles to form a multi-layered history about the controversialRocky Flats nuclear facility.The book also explores the creation and collapse of thenuclear weaponscomplex in theUnited States.

Reviews ofMaking a Real Killinghave been published inEnvironmental History[2]andPacific Historical Review.[3]

Len Ackland is the former editor of theBulletin of the Atomic Scientistsand director forenvironmental journalismat theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder.[4]

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  1. ^Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West,by Len Ackland. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. xi + 308 pp.
  2. ^Jason N. Krupar.Book ReviewEnvironmental History,Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 129-131.
  3. ^Thomas R. Wellock.Book ReviewPacific Historical Review,Vol. 70, No. 2 (May, 2001), pp. 346-348.
  4. ^Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West