 | Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s Subjects: United States -- Politics and government -- 1977–1981; Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg Region; Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.) -- Accidents -- Social aspects; Radiation injuries -- United States -- Social aspect; On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant. In this innovative study, Natasha Zaretsky uses the near-meltdown to shed new light on the era's political realignments. Radiation Nation uncovers the surprising bodily and ecological dimensions of post-Vietnam conservatism. Natasha Zaretsky is associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University. She is the author of No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980 (2007). |
