Book description
Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood was a union activist concerned about health and safety issues at the plant, and her death at age twenty-eight was…
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1 author picked The Killing of Karen Silkwood as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book reveals much more than the Silkwood movie (starring Meryl Streep and Cher) dared to. Rashke’s book gave me a guide to uncovering decades of deception at the Hanford plutonium factory in Washington State.
By reporting on several mysterious deaths of people connected to her, The Killing of Karen Silkwood educated me on the perils I could face if I persisted in my investigation.
From James' list on hope in ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
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