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Half-lives and half-truths : confronting the radioactive legacies of the cold war / edited by Barbara Rose Johnston.
Penn Museum Library RA393 .H33 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- School for Advanced Research resident scholar series
- Resident scholar series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical policy--Soviet Union.
- Medical policy.
- Medical policy--United States.
- United States.
- Radioactivity.
- Cold War.
- Nuclear Warfare.
- Environmental Exposure--adverse effects.
- Politics.
- Radiation Injuries.
- Radioactive Hazard Release.
- USSR.
- Soviet Union.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nuclear Warfare.
- Environmental Exposure--adverse effects.
- Politics.
- Radiation Injuries.
- Radioactive Hazard Release.
- United States.
- USSR.
- Genre:
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Physical Description:
- x, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Half-lives & half-truths
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- A collection of papers by activists and anthropologists reveals the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and processing, lived in regions dedicated to the construction of nuclear weapons or participated, often unknowingly, in radiation experiments. The nations and individuals, many of them members of indigenous or ethnic minority communities, are now demanding information about how the United States and the Soviet Union poisoned them and meaningful remedies for the damage done to them and the generations to come.
- Contents:
- Half-lives, half-truths, and other radioactive legacies of the Cold War / Barbara Rose Johnston
- "More like us than mice" : radiation experiments with indigenous peoples / Barbara Rose Johnston
- Earle Reynolds : scientist, citizen, and Cold War dissident / David Price
- There are no peripheries to humanity : Northern Alaska nuclear dumping and the Iñupiat's search for redress / Edith Turner
- Uranium mining and milling : Navajo experiences in the American Southwest / Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan Dawson, and Gary Madsen
- Uranium mine workers, atomic downwinders, and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) : the nuclear legacy / Susan Dawson and Gary Madsen
- Hanford, tribal risks, and public health in an era of forced federalism / Edward Liebow
- From Cold War complex to nature preserve : diagnosing the breakdown of a multi-stakeholder decision process and its consequences for Rocky Flats / Theresa Satterfield and Joshua Levin
- Health assessment downwind : past abuses shadow future indicators / Marie Boutté
- From analysis to action : efforts to address the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands / Holly M. Barker
- Russia's radiation victims of Cold War weapons production surviving in a culture of secrecy and denial / Paula Garb
- Unraveling the secrets of the past : contested versions of nuclear testing in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan / Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts
- Nuclear legacies : arrogance, secrecy, ignorance, lies, silence, suffering, action / Laura Nader and Hugh Gusterson.
- Notes:
- "A School for Advanced Research resident scholar book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781930618824
- 1930618824
- OCLC:
- 77520624
- Publisher Number:
- 99966939492
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