The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement by Dan O'Neill

3.93 AVERAGE

klbf_present's review against another edition

5.0
challenging funny informative slow-paced
HUBRIS IS OUR FATAL FLAW.  Read this paired with Under A White Sky for the folly of humans trying to construct nature to our designs. This book also serves as a reminder to pay attention and stay involved in your community, if you won't look out for yourself, some jackass with a growth mindset is going to bulldoze you.
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rickirobin's review against another edition

4.0
Fascinating, important, at times very tedious, but ultimately a hell of a read in 2018, paralleling the DOI's current push to develop every inch of Arctic Alaska for oil, despite public opinion.

Read my review/op-ed here: https://49writers.org/2018/05/erica-watson-craters.html

jenzacher's review against another edition

5.0
inspiring fast-paced
I read this book 20 years ago and continue to recommend it as the themes are relevant today. It features government, academics, private business, and Indigenous people taking action related to land use in Alaska. The role of media in activism, specifically cassette tapes, is memorable. 

sbn42's review against another edition

5.0
A story about what can happen with the unchecked arrogance of government. The most unfortunate part of the story is that it is all true.

formerprosk8r's review against another edition

3.75
challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

mags_'s review against another edition

4.0
Incredibly well-researched account of the origins of the US environmental movement, as well as an important history of a chapter in the country's "atomic era." Very informative (to the point of being dense, but I'm also not generally one for non-fiction).