FBB Chapter 1- Andrew Anthony

     One chapter into the book, and it is already eye opening. In my opinion Full Body Burden shows the ugly truth that most US citizens don't see everyday. Not many people understand the hardship some people go through growing up in an area like Rocky Flats. I mean, there are people like Kristen Iversen who grow up with alcoholic dads are parents who smoke, but those people don't have to deal with the problems a nuclear weapons plant causes for the community as well as the environment. Just this first chapter shows that even the people who live in the area of one of these plants don't even know it is going to be built until it is too late to prepare or even get out. And from the Iversen describes it the effects don't gradually happen, they come right away with not much time to react. Now the reason why the community does not know the plant is being built is because the government is not telling anyone what they are doing until they start building. And even once they start building they don't tell the public everything. Iversen says when the plant was being built the government said that no nuclear weapons would be built at the plant and that there would be no environmental effects, and that's it. The government never said what would be manufactured at the plant, they just said it wouldn't be weapons. And the just completely lied to the public by saying that the environment would not be effected, because Iversen said that once the plant was built radioactive and toxic waste was already being dumped into creeks. Just based off of the first chapter I believe that Iversen is, as well as other things, going to be trying to show the readers that it is not always a good thing to trust the government because they don't exactly tell the truth.