The Firecracker Boys H-bombs, Inupiat Eskimos and the Roots of the Environmental Movement

An investigation of Project Chariot, a 1958 plan by the U.S. government to detonate six hydrogen bombs in Alaska, shows how official arrogance and deception were defeated by a nascent environmental movement, led by a small group of Eskimos and biologists, that halted a nuclear catastrophe. Reprint.