Leslie Viereck papers, ca. 1958-1969.

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Leslie Viereck papers, ca. 1958-1969.

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The Leslie Viereck papers consist of correspondence and research files including reprints, pamphlets, speeches and presentations, newsclippings, notes and news releases. The materials relate to Project Chariot, the Atomic Energy Commission's plan to create a harbor at Cape Thompson, Alaska, by the use of a nuclear detonation. Viereck's research files include materials on fallout, radioactive food chains and Project Chariot. Correspondence in the collection relates to Project Chariot and Cape Thompson in general, and also includes correspondence about radiation ecology and correspondence with and about Viereck's fellow Project Chariot colleague Don C. Foote. There are also photographic slides documenting the 1954 Mt. McKinley climb by George Argus, Elton Thayer, Leslie Viereck and Morton Wood.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Viereck, Leslie A.

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Foote, Don Charles, 1931-

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Don Charles Foote was born in 1931. He received an M.A. and a Ph. D. in Human Geography from McGill University in 1958 and 1965 respectively. Foote moved to Alaska in 1959 and spent two years in Point Hope employed as a researcher for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and a third year researching the history of the Point Hope area, particularly as it related to whaling. His research for the AEC convinced him of the dangers of a proposal to use nuclear weapons to blast a harbor near Point Hope. ...

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

Project Chariot

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