Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats Audiobook (Free)

“An intimate and deeply human being memoir that presents why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, as well as the dangers of ignoring science in the name of nationwide security.”-Rebecca Skloot, #1 NY Times bestselling writer of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

A shocking account of the government’s try to conceal the consequences from the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons seed in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice-soon to be always a about Total Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Darkness of Rocky Flats feature documentary

Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town near Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once specified ‘the most contaminated site in the us.’ Full Body Burden may be the story of a years as a child and adolescence in the shadow of the Chilly War, inside a landscape simultaneously startlingly beautiful and–unknown to those who lived there–tainted with unseen yet deadly contaminants of plutonium. It’s also a publication about the harmful power of secrets–both family members and government. Her father’s hidden liquor containers, the strange malignancies in kids in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats–best not to ask as well deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she begun to ask questions and found out some disturbing realities.

Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully created book is certainly both fascinating and unnerving.