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The Tainted Desert

The Tainted Desert

Environmental Ruin in the American West

Valerie L. Kuletz

Published in 1998 by

Routledge

Published 2016 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

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Copyright 1998 by Routledge

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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Kuletz. Valerie.

The Tainted Desert: environmental ruin in the American west /

by Valerie Kuletz.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Indians of North AmericaNevada. 2. Nuclear weaponsNevada TestingSocial aspects. 3. Radioactive waste disposalNevada Social aspects. 4. Indians of North AmericaWest (U.S.) 5. Nuclear weaponsWest (U.S.)Social aspects. 6. Radioactive waste disposalWest (U.S.)Social aspects. I. Title.

E78.N4K85 1998

363.17990978dc21

97.3459

CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-91770-4 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-91771-1 (pbk)

DEDICATION

For my father, Edward Kuletz (19211995),

for Corbin Harney,

Spiritual Leader of the Western Shoshone

and tireless antinuclear activist,

for Richard Rawles,

who explored this sad and

beautiful landscape with me, and

for the people of the desert

Contents

	Government installation or National Laboratory
	Radioactive activity or proposed site for nuclear waste burial
	Nuclear explosion
	Regional desert boundary
	Military Reservation or Training Area
	Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation
	Zone Two Indian Reservation or Colony
	Monitored retrievable storage (MRS) proposed site
	Uranium production
	Uranium production radiation accident

GOVERNMENTAL

ACOHP	Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
AEC	Atomic Energy Commission
AIRFA	American Indian Religious Freedom Act
ARPA	Archaeological Resources Protection Act
BLM	Bureau of Land Management
DOD	Department of Defense
DOE	Department of Energy
EIS	Environmental Impact Statement
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
LANL	Los Alamos National Laboratory
MOA	Military Operations Area
NAGPRA	Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
NAWS	Naval Air Weapons Station
NDRC	National Defense Research Committee
NEPA	National Environmental Policy Act
NHPA	National Historic Preservation Act
NOTS	Naval Ordinance Test Station
NPS	National Park Service
NRC	Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NWC	Naval Weapons Center
NWPA	Nuclear Waste Policy Act
OCRWM	Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
OSRD	Office of Scientific Research and Development
WIPP	Waste Isolation Pilot Project
YMP	Yucca Mountain Project

NONGOVERNMENTAL

APC	All Peoples Coalition
CANAP	Citizen Alert Native American Project
CCNS	Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
DRI	Desert Research Institute
NACE	Native Americans for a Clean Environment
NIEC	Nevada Indian Environmental Coalition
SAIC	Science Applications International Corporation
RAMA	Rural Alliance for Military Accountability
WSNC	Western Shoshone National Council
WSNDP	Western Shoshone National Defense Project

This book focuses on the social and environmental impact of nuclearism, from its inception in the 1940s through its escalation during the Cold War to the establishment of the first U.S. deep-geologic repository for high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, in the late 1990s. In the process it illuminates some of the hidden and unacknowledged costs of the Cold Warboth environmentally and sociallyin the interdesert West. It also identifies competing claims to these lands by different actors in the regionNative Americans, antinuclear activists, Euroamerican scientists, and government officials. Because of their importance to the region, Native American elders and Euroamerican government-sponsored scientists are focused on as cultural groups that promote competing truth claims about this landscape. One group views areas within the region as sacred landscapes and aboriginal homelands, and the other sees these same areas as wastelands of little economic and productive value, suitable primarily for environmental experimentation and ultimately sacrifice.

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