''Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West'' is a 1999 book by
Len Ackland. Ackland draws on information obtained from governmental sources, federal contractors, personal interviews, and newspaper articles to form a multi-layered history about the controversial
Rocky Flats nuclear facility. The book also explores the creation and collapse of the
nuclear weapons complex in the
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Pacific Historical Review
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See also
*''Dark Circle
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'', an award-winning PBS
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documentary
*List of books about nuclear issues
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*''The Algebra of Infinite Justice'' (2001)
*'' American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J ...
*List of anti-nuclear protests in the United States
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* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
*Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant
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References
1999 non-fiction books
Books about nuclear issues
Jefferson County, Colorado
Nuclear history
Rocky Flats Plant
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