| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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Book Review

Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska. By Dean W. Kohlhoff. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. x + 166 pp. Map, notes, index. $25.00.)

In Amchitka and the Bomb, Dean Kohlhoff offers an amazingly concise narrative that nonetheless deals with a wide array of issues associated with nuclear weapons testing, Alaskan history, and environmentalism. His work follows up Dan O'Neill's The Firecracker Boys (New York, 1994), which documented the eventually aborted effort to excavate a deepwater harbor in Alaska using nuclear explosions. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) conducted three underground nuclear tests on the Aleutian island of Amchitka. The purpose of the first test, Long Shot (1965), was to provide data that would aid in differentiating between underground nuclear explosions and earthquakes, and thus provide a means of verifying compliance with a possible comprehensive test-ban treaty. The second and third shots, Milrow (1969) and Cannikin (1970), were part of the military's effort to develop an antiballistic missile defense system.

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