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Book Radioactive Contamination of Certain Areas in the Pacific Ocean from Nuclear Tests  A Summary of the Data from the Radiological Surveys and Medical Examinations  Edited by Gordon M  Dunning

Download or read book Radioactive Contamination of Certain Areas in the Pacific Ocean from Nuclear Tests A Summary of the Data from the Radiological Surveys and Medical Examinations Edited by Gordon M Dunning written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radioactive Contamination of Certain Areas in the Pacific Ocean from Nuclear Tests

Download or read book Radioactive Contamination of Certain Areas in the Pacific Ocean from Nuclear Tests written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radioactive contamination of certain areas in the Pacific Ocean from nuclear tests

Download or read book Radioactive contamination of certain areas in the Pacific Ocean from nuclear tests written by Gordon M. Dunning and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index.

Book Bibliography of Technical Reports on the Effects of Fallout

Download or read book Bibliography of Technical Reports on the Effects of Fallout written by Roger Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities

Download or read book Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities written by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role that narrative, visual, and aesthetic forms can play in drawing attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term and catastrophic environmental challenges such as climate change, militarism, deforestation, the pollution and management of the global commons, petrocapitalism, and the commodification of nature. The volume presents a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities, especially in conjunction with current thinking in areas such as political ecology and environmental justice. Spanning regions such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Australasia and the Pacific, as well as North America, the volume includes essays by founding figures in the field as well as new scholars, providing vital new interdisciplinary perspectives on: the politics of the earth; disaster, vulnerability, and resilience; political ecologies and environmental justice; world ecologies; and the Anthropocene. In engaging critical ecologies, the volume poses a postcolonial environmental humanities for the twenty-first century. At the heart of this is a conviction that a thoroughly global, postcolonial, and comparative approach is essential to defining the emergent field of the environmental humanities, and that this field has much to offer in understanding critical issues surrounding the creation of alternative ecological futures.

Book Consequential Damages of Nuclear War

Download or read book Consequential Damages of Nuclear War written by Barbara Rose Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics, government secrecy, human rights, military testing, and academic activism. The report, reproduced here with accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and related subjects.

Book Elements of Controversy

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  • Author : Barton C. Hacker
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520083233
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book Elements of Controversy written by Barton C. Hacker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.

Book Selected Readings on Atomic Energy

Download or read book Selected Readings on Atomic Energy written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Health Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Testing

Download or read book Health Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Testing written by Gordon M. Dunning and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet is concerned principally with the health aspects of nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere. Nothing new is contained herein and much has been omitted for brevity. The pamphlet does attempt to bring together the highlights of a large body of information and thus in some small way may assist in further enlightenment of a complex subject.

Book Nuclear Science Abstracts

Download or read book Nuclear Science Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1957-07 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Current List of Medical Literature

Download or read book Current List of Medical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section, "Recent book acquisitions" (varies: Recent United States publications) formerly published separately by the U.S. Army Medical Library.

Book Library of Congress Catalogs

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radiology

Download or read book Radiology written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Catalog

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: