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Nuclear wastelands : a global guide to nuclear weapons production and its health and environmental effects / by a special commission of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research ; edited by Arjun Makhijani, Howard Hu, and Katherine Yih. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons plants--Environmental aspects.
- Nuclear weapons plants.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing--Environmental aspects.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear weapons plants--Health aspects.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing--Health aspects.
- Radioactive Pollutants--adverse effects.
- Mining.
- Plutonium--adverse effects.
- Power Plants.
- Uranium--adverse effects.
- Nuclear Warfare.
- Medical Subjects:
- Radioactive Pollutants--adverse effects.
- Mining.
- Plutonium--adverse effects.
- Power Plants.
- Uranium--adverse effects.
- Nuclear Warfare.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 666 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- A readiness to harm / Arjun Makhijani
- Methodology / Arjun Makhijani and Howard Hu
- The production of nuclear weapons and environmental hazards / Arjun Makhijani and Scott Saleska
- Health hazards of nuclear weapons production / David Sumner, Howard Hu, and Alistair Woodward
- Uranium mining and milling for military purposes / Katherine Yih [and others]
- The United States / Arjun Makhijani [and others]
- Russia and the territories of the former Soviet Union / Albert Donnay [and others]
- The United Kingdom / David Sumner, Rebecca Johnson, and William Peden
- France / Albert Donnay and Martin Kuster
- China / Alexandra Brooks and Howard Hu
- Near-nuclear and de facto nuclear weapons countries / Albert Donnay and Arjun Makhijani
- The global picture : summary and recommendations / Howard Hu and Arjun Makhijani.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-262-27890-1
- 0-585-36951-8
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