“An intimate and deeply human being memoir that shows why we have to all take into account nuclear safety, as well as the dangers of ignoring science in the name of nationwide security.”-Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling writer of The Immortal Lifestyle of Henrietta Lacks

A shocking account from the government’s try to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released with a key nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain seek out justice-soon to be always a about Full Body Burden: Developing Up in the Nuclear Darkness of Rocky Flats feature documentary

Kristen Iversen was raised in a little Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons seed once designated ‘the most polluted site in the us.’ Full Body Burden may be the story of a child years and adolescence in the darkness of the Chilly War, in a landscape at once startlingly gorgeous and–unknown to those who lived there–tainted with invisible yet deadly contaminants of plutonium. It is also a book about the damaging power of secrets–both family members and government. Her father’s hidden liquor bottles, the strange malignancies in kids in a nearby, the truth in what was produced at Rocky Flats–best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But mainly because Iversen grew older, she started to ask queries and uncovered some disturbing realities.

Predicated on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA files, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully created book can be both fascinating and unnerving.