By Richard Rashke,Kate Bronfenbrenner

On November thirteen, 1974, Karen Silkwood used to be riding on a abandoned Oklahoma road while her automobile crashed right into a cement wall and he or she used to be killed. at the seat subsequent to her were doctored quality-control negatives exhibiting that her organization, Kerr-McGee, used to be production faulty gasoline rods full of plutonium. She had lately stumbled on that greater than 40 kilos of plutonium have been lacking from the Kerr-McGee plant.

40 years later, her loss of life continues to be steeped in secret. Did she doze off earlier than the coincidence, or did an individual strength her off the line? And what happened to the lacking plutonium? The Killing of Karen Silkwood meticulously lays out the evidence and encourages the readers to choose. up-to-date with the author’s chilling new advent that discusses the similarities with Edward Snowden’s fresh revelations, Silkwood’s tale is as suitable at the present time because it was once 40 years ago. 

For this up to date variation, the writer has extra the most recent details as to what occurred to many of the humans focused on the Silkwood case and information of the lasting results of this underreported piece of the background of the antinuclear movement.

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