Memories of Mistrust and Contamination: The Legacies of Cosmos 954 and Operation Morning Light in Denendeh

• Main Author: Power, Ellen
• Other Authors: Farish, Matt, Geography
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: community memory; Denendeh; environmental contamination; Indigenous; Northwest Territories; nuclear radiation; 0366; Fort Resolution
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/98549

On January 24, 1978, the nuclear-powered Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 burned up over the Northwest Territories. Radioactive satellite debris dispersed across hundreds of square kilometres of land, including several communities. Working with nuclear emergency teams from the United States, the Canadian...