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Title:
Half-lives and half-truths : confronting the radioactive legacies of the cold war / edited by Barbara Rose Johnston.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
School for Advanced Research Press,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
x, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Medical policy--Soviet Union.
Medical policy--United States.
Radioactivity--Soviet Union.
Radioactivity--United States.
Cold War.
Nuclear Warfare--USSR.
Nuclear Warfare--United States.
Environmental Exposure--adverse effects--USSR.
Environmental Exposure--adverse effects--United States.
Politics--USSR.
Politics--United States.
Radiation Injuries--USSR.
Radiation Injuries--United States.
Radioactive Hazard Release--USSR.
Radioactive Hazard Release--United States.
Other Authors:
Johnston, Barbara Rose.
School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Notes:
"A School for Advanced Research resident scholar book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Nuclear legacies : arrogance, secrecy, ignorance, lies, silence, suffering, action / Laura Nader and Hugh Gusterson. "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.
Series:
Resident scholar series
ISBN:
1930618824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781930618824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)77520624
LCCN:
2006102477
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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