Dying for Answers: Expendable Workers of the Cold War Nuclear Testing

by Dot Clayton

Overview

The book tells a gripping account and shares the critical decisions made by all agencies involved in the nuclear underground testing during the Cold War with Russia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781489710536
Publisher:	LifeRich Publishing
Publication date:	11/18/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	229 KB

About the Author

Dorothy Clayton was born and raised in small town USA. She graduated from Texas High School in Texarkana, Texas and continued her education at Crosier Business College in Dallas, Texas. In 1961, Dorothy was hired by Bendix Field Engineering to set up office for NASA’s Apollo program. After a short stay in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where she soon found herself working with The Atomic Energy Commission at the Nevada Test Site as part of the Nuclear Weapons Testing Program. The Cold War was in full swing, and there was a patriotic and winning spirit by everyone working at the NTS. All work was extremely secret and certainly not discussed with anyone outside the NTS gates. Everyone knew the main task was to contrive “the perfect” weapon, certainly before the Soviet Union accomplished that task. Dorothy witnessed first hand, the devastation of those tests as workers began dying with all types of cancers. Little did she know that she would become part of an elite group of Americans know as the Veterans of the Cold War while others became casualties of the Cold War.