title: Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
author:  Len Ackland 
description: A hard-edged history of a center of Cold War death-dealing technology. . . . Ackland also serves up a useful summary of American nuclear policy in the Cold War era . . . . The scary workings of Rocky Flats were far from ordinary. So, too, is this fine book of reportage and history.<br /><br />"Ackland skillfully weaves together individual experience with nuclear technology and politics. It's a model of investigation that should be read by all with concerns over the problems that accompany nuclear weapons and power."<br /><br />"Making a Real Killing" is a model for making sense of the Cold War Atomic West. . . . It combines personal stories, excellent Cold War historical context, simplified technical explanations of complicated nuclear science, labor history, and corporate history into a compelling narrative. . . . "Making a Real Killing" should find its place not only alongside other recent atomic histories, but also next to the best books on understanding the American West of the last half-century.<br /><br />"[Ackland] skillfully weaves together individual experience with nuclear technology and politics. It's a model of investigation that should be read by all with concerns over the problems that accompany nuclear weapons and power."<br /><br />""Making a Real Killing" is a model for making sense of the Cold War Atomic West. . . . It combines personal stories, excellent Cold War historical context, simplified technical explanations of complicated nuclear science, labor history, and corporate history into a compelling narrative. . . . "Making a Real Killing" should find its place not only alongside other recent atomic histories, but also next to the best books on understanding the American West of the last half-century."<br /><br />"A hard-edged history of a center of Cold War death-dealing technology. . . . Ackland also serves up a useful summary of American nuclear policy in the Cold War era . . . . The scary workings of Rocky Flats were far from ordinary. So, too, is this fine book of reportage and history."
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  ## S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Northern Passage
  
  
    
  
  
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  ### Balázs Pataki
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Life goes on in the Exclusion Zone around ill-fated Chernobyl — adventurers
  calling themselves Stalkers hunt for valuable artifacts, mutants hunt for
  Stalkers and the Zone still decides over the fate of souls living within its
  wild frontiers. Behind the scenes, the Ukrainian Secret Service is forcing a
  fallen hero to betray a friend.
  
  
  In the New Zone, the Exclusion Zone’s vast twin phenomenon and apparently
  created after nuclear warheads devastated Afghanistan in 2011, renegade US
  Marines calling themselves the Tribe patrol the mountain ranges, Stalkers try
  to establish themselves in ruins of Bagram Air Base and mutated predators
  migrate to the anomaly-infested plains. All these dangers can not dissuade
  those hardy souls who brave the New Zone. But whatever their motives, however
  great their courage, a new power is arising 