Making a Real Killing explained

Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West is a 1999 book by Len 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 controversial Rocky Flats nuclear facility. The book also explores the creation and collapse of the nuclear weapons complex in the United States.

Reviews of Making a Real Killing have been published in Environmental History^[2] and Pacific Historical Review.^[3]

Len Ackland is the former editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and director for environmental journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder.^[4]

See also

• Dark Circle, an award-winning PBS documentary
• List of books about nuclear issues
• List of anti-nuclear protests in the United States
• Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant

Notes and References

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 Review Environmental History, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 129-131.
3. [Thomas Wellock|Thomas R. Wellock]
4. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3854/is_200101/ai_n8945237/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1 Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West