Download or read book Building Alaska with the U S Army 1867 1962 written by United States. Alaskan Command and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building Alaska with the U S Army 1867 1962 written by United States. Alaskan Command and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Building Alaska with the U S Army 1867 1965 written by United States. Alaskan Command and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building Alaska with the U S written by United States. Army. Alaskan Command and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the North Pacific Division written by Mary E. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Amchitka and the Bomb written by Dean W. Kohlhoff and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a quarter-century has now passed since the United States set off the last of three underground atomic blasts in the remote wilderness of the Aleutian islands, off the coast of Alaska. Cannikin, as this third test was called, exploded as planned on November 6, 1971, on Amchitka Island. The first test, Project Long Shot (1965), was designed to determine whether the blast’s shock waves could be distinguished from earthquakes. Milrow, the second (1969), and Cannikin were part of the U.S. anti-ballistic missile development program. Amchitka and the Bomb looks at how these nuclear explosions were planned and conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission, in spite of vehement protests by political and civilian groups. In addition to demonstrating the feasibility of a new generation of weapons, the government defended the nuclear tests on Amchitka as providing U.S. presidents, and especially Richard Nixon, with negotiating power to force the Soviet Union to accept a satisfactory arms limitation agreement. Dean Kohlhoff traces the enormous environmental impact of the blasts on the Aleutian wildlife refuge system. He also examines the social and political fallout from the tests on Aleut civilian populations. As the tests inexorably went forward, an emerging environmental movement was galvanized to action. Passionate but ultimately futile attempts to stop the blasts were made by such nascent groups as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and the Wilderness Society. Although Alaskan Aleuts sued to halt Cannikin and environmental groups joined them for an injunction against the test, a split U.S. Supreme Court eventually approved the 5.1-megaton explosion. Amchitka and the Bomb tells a harrowing story of the struggle of private citizens and small environmental groups to counter the weight of the federal government. It adds immeasurably to our understanding of the nuclear history of the United States. Its concise interweaving of the military, scientific, economic, and social implications surrounding the nuclear explosions on Amchitka Island exposes the unpleasant consequences of allowing treasured national values to become victim to political necessity. Kohlhoff has contributed a vital chapter to Alaska's history and to the history of the American environmental movement.

Download or read book Copper River Highway written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Writings on American History 1962 73 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "provides a comprehensive listing of the book-length works published from 1962 to 1973 that are relevant to the study of American history [and is] organized into a subject classification system. This bibliography gives access to over 50,000 works on the history, the geography, and the political, social, and economic aspects of the United States, its people, its government, and its institutions. The entries cover the entire area now within the United States or under its jurisdiction, ranging from prehistoric times to 1973"--Introd.

Download or read book Strength in the North written by Truman R. Strobridge and published by Alaska : Elmendorf Air Force Base [Alaskan Command]. This book was released on 1966 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thousand Mile War written by Brian Garfield and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thousand-Mile War, a powerful story of the battles of the United States and Japan on the bitter rim of the North Pacific, has been acclaimed as one of the great accounts of World War II. Brian Garfield, a novelist and screenwriter whose works have sold some 20 million copies, was searching for a new subject when he came upon the story of this "forgotten war" in Alaska. He found the history of the brave men who had served in the Aleutians so compelling and so little known that he wrote the first full-length history of the Aleutian campaign, and the book remains a favorite among Alaskans. The war in the Aleutians was fought in some of the worst climatic conditions on earth for men, ships, and airplanes. The sea was rough, the islands craggy and unwelcoming, and enemy number one was always the weather--the savage wind, fog, and rain of the Aleutian chain. The fog seemed to reach even into the minds of the military commanders on both sides, as they directed men into situations that so often had tragic results. Frustrating, befuddling, and still the subject of debate, the Aleutian campaign nevertheless marked an important turn of the war in favor of the United States. Now, half a century after the war ended, more of the fog has been lifted. In the updated University of Alaska Press edition, Garfield supplements his original account, which was drawn from statistics, personal interviews, letters, and diaries, with more recently declassified photographs and many more illustrations.

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions written by Adrian Howkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history. The volume considers the centrality of Indigenous experience and the urgent need to build action in the present on a thorough understanding of the past. Using historical research based on methods ranging from archives and print culture to archaeology and oral histories, these essays provide fresh analyses of the discovery of Antarctica, the disappearance of Sir John Franklin, the fate of the Norse colony in Greenland, the origins of the Antarctic Treaty, and much more. This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of our planet.

Download or read book Operation Helping Hand written by Truman R. Strobridge and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The National Union Catalogs 1963 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Purchase of Alaska written by Archibald Williamson Shiels and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected letters, Senator Sumner's speech, and press opinions supporting the Purchase Treaty of Alaska in 1867.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference on Scientific Research in the National Parks written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: