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The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction

Amy Brashear

Why we're reading this: 7/8 -
- Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
- Command and Control
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- Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
- Command and Control

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May 01, 2019 Ellie rated it it was ok

Shelves: young-adult, aty-2019

I so wanted to love this book, there's so much nuclear nerdery in it. I won't say as much as the official blurb does because it mentions an event that takes place nearly at the end of the book. So I was reading expecting something to happen and then the big event was so rushed. Seriously publishers, if an event doesn't happen in the first 100 pages, don't put it on the cover.

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