A very interesting and informative collection of essays by Kristen Iversen on the Rocky Flats, a nuclear testing site I knew nothing of before reading this book.

As soon as I saw this work by Kristen Iversen, I immediately requested to read it. I loved Full Body Burden, and I was eager to read more by her on this subject. I was a little disappointed to find out that this is a collection of essays with Iversen's introduction. Even in the short introduction, Iversen's writing was excellent.

The essays were very informative, but sometimes a bit repetitive as the same details were rehashed in multiple essays. Not that I minded terribly. I was glad to get an updated look at what was happening at Rocky Flats. The essays also provided a multi-faceted look at different aspects of the situation; like Medical, legal, artistic, etc.

The plutonium contamination and continual whitewashing and coverups will never end. People like the authors of these essays are the sentinels of the truth of Rocky Flats. While government and business want to hurry up and move on, building and burning, these voices cry the reasons why this is stupid and unfathomably dangerous. The only reason the area around Rocky Flats is still inhabited is because you can't prove without any doubt at all that your cancer was due to exposure to radioactive and carcinogenic materials from that plant. That's the only reason. And as long as industry and government can cling to that statement, they will.

If you've read Full Body Burden, this is something you'll certainly want to pick up. If you have any interest at all on nuclear history, or the impact said history is still having on us all, please pick this up. It is absolutely disgusting what this country has done to itself in pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC to review for "Doom with a View".

This is a collection of essays regarding the usage (misuse), management (mismanagement) and remediation (?) of the Cold War era Rocky Flats Nuclear Materials Processing Plant located in Arvada, Colorado. Rocky Flats produced the enriched plutonium pucks that are at the center of each warhead in our nuclear arsenal.

As someone who has visited Colorado many times over the past decade and actually been in Golden, CO, Boulder, CO, Denver, CO and areas adjacent to the plant I was amazed that I had NEVER HEARD OF IT... Turns out that was how the Department of Energy wanted it.

Being as we're living thru the trash fire that is 2020, I'm sure no-one will be surprised by the fact that workers at the plant were lied to about the dangers of the nuclear isotopes they were working with. The landowners and residents around the plant were lied to about the purpose of the plant and the dangers that it posed to the health of the land, livestock and themselves. And, the general public is 'still' being lied to about the safety of the remediated and supposedly safe for public usage Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge presently being managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

I thoroughly enjoyed several of the essays and actually would give the collection a strong 3-1/2 - 4 star rating. If one has any curiosity about the Cold War (which I lived thru) and the absolutely ape #$% behavior and negligence to the public of our government in the running of/aftermath of the Cold War Nuclear Program sites scattered around the country. There is an essay for every type of reader. The downside of the book is that there is a limited amount of information available and declassified so that once you are about 1/3 of the way thru, information starts repeating. Some of the essays are hard going unless you are a lawyer or nuclear physicist. But even a layman can grasp the monumental consequences and health hazards that this and other sites poses to the residents of the area and even to the entire world.

I highly recommend that everyone should read at least a few of chapters and sit solemnly and mull over just how @#$%'d we actually are in the present hands of the governing bodies and the never-ending coverups and cost cutting circumvention of recommended guidelines for the handling of nuclear wastes and materials. I vividly remember touring Arkansas Nuclear One and Two as a preteen and the information we were given about how nuclear energy is a safe, clean source of energy, with little to no danger to the community. I also remember the scattered signs for hundreds of miles around Russellville/Dardanelle stating "nuclear evacutation' route.

As our late president Dwight D. Eisenhower is quoted:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."

**I received and voluntarily read an e-ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.**

It's nice, lots of new information I'd never read before.

The beginning is a little more intriguing, but as the book goes on, it gets a little on the dry side for those days where you just want to sit down and read without a lot of involved thinking.

Overall, I don't think every essay is for every person, but most people could find an essay or two that resonates with them personally.