Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

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Full Body Burden is Kristen Iversen’s story of growing up in a small Colorado town as regards to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant. It is also a book about the destructive power of secretsboth circle of relatives secrets and government secrets. Her father’s hidden liquor bottles, the peculiar cancers in children locally, the truth about what they made at Rocky Flatsbest to not inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she started to ask questions and found out some disturbing realities.
     As this memoir unfolds, it reveals itself as a brilliant work of investigative journalisma shocking account of the government’s sustained attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic and radioactive waste released by Rocky Flats, and of local residents’ vain attempts to are seeking for justice in court. In line with extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book promises to have a very long half-life.

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