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The story of a government program to use nukes to excavate a deep-water harbor in Alaska. And how a small group of Eskimos turned back the feds, secured their own land and changed the global environmental movement. Host lede: After the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many Americans began having second thoughts about the atomic bomb. In response, scientists and public officials set about putting a happy face on nuclear technology, promising that the atom would do more than just win wars, it would improve people?s lives. But they didn?t always tell the whole story, as one group of Alaskans found out. Reporter Gabriel Spitzer has more on the U-S plan to turn its swords into plowshares.