Poison in the Well : Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age.
Title:
Poison in the Well : Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age.
Author:
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin.
ISBN:
9780813544236
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (326 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Threshold Illusions -- Chapter 2: Radiation Anxieties -- Chapter 3: The Other Atomic Scientists -- Chapter 4: Forging an International Consensus -- Chapter 5: No Atomic Graveyards -- Chapter 6: The Environment as Cold War Terrain -- Chapter 7: Purely for Political Reasons -- Chapter 8: Confronting Environmentalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Poison in the Wellprovides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Jacob Darwin Hamblin traces the development of the issue in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970s.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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