The highway of the atom

Summary: "A subarctic mine on the far eastern shores of Great Bear Lake provided Canadian uranium for the bombs detonated over Japan in August 1945. However, a complete history of Canada's involvement in the Manhattan project and the development of the atomic bomb has been thwarted by restrictions on classified documents. [This book] overcomes these restrictions in an innovative and unconventional history that assembles a narrative from fragments -- interviews, indigenous stories, archives, and physical remains -- while questioning whether it is possible to grasp the past by sifting through what remains. Uncovering the story of the radioactive ore's route from mine to weapon of mass destruction, Peter van Wyck considers the legacy of this history for the Dene community and inquires into trauma, landscape, disaster, and memory. ... weaves together crucial missing pieces about the beginning of the Atomic Age in startling and unexpected ways."--Book jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 077353783X
ISBN: 9780773537835
ISBN: 0773580875 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780773580879 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 271 p.) : ill., map.
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Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. CatMonthString:january.17
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-256) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Field Note: Great Bear Lake -- 30 July 2003 -- Punctum ; Rice Christians -- Who knew? ; Field Note: Two Contrasting Figures -- May 2003 ; Field Note: Tulita -- 6 August 2003 ; Field Note: Yellowknife, Explorer Hotel -- August 2003 ; Field Note: Northern Metaphor -- Norway Point, February 2005 ; Field Note: Landscape -- Yellowknife, August 2007 ; Field Note: Tigullapaa -- Nuuk, Greenland, 25 August 2008 ; Field Note: Norway Point -- April 2009 -- Finding Aids ; Field Note: Cobalt-Bloom and Copper-Green -- Echo Bay, 2003 ; Field Note: Cameron Bay -- August 2003 ; Field Note: Bewilderment Déline, 2003 ; Field Note: Grey Goose Inn, Déline -- 25 July 2003 ; Field Note: Arctic Circle (66 ' 32 ') -- 1 August 2005 ; Field Note: Port Radium -- 30 July 2003 ; Field Note: Deline -- August 2003 -- The Stones Are Speaking Now ; Phantoms ; Alibi ; Lieux de Memoire: A Mémonics of Catastrophe ; Abduction and the Accident ; Shipwreck with Raven ; Field Note: New Mexico -- February 2004 ; Field Note: Black River -- 3 August 2005 ; Field Note: Mackenzie River -- 3 August 2005 ; Field Notes in the Margins ; Field Note: Tulita (Fort Norman) -- 6 August 2005 ; Field Note: Tsiigehtchic (Arctic Red River) -- 6 August 2005 ; Field Note: (The Gift) Déline -- February 2003
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.