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Forget-Me-Nots


Dan O’Neill

December 18th, 2009

Dan O’Neill wrote “The Firecracker Boys” — a book about Project Chariot, a plan to use H-bombs to carve a harbor in the Arctic.

Many of the same business leaders who had supported statehood also backed this project near Point Hope.

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