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Title 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.

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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	363.1799 N883	---	Available

Description	xxiv, 666 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [597]-640) and index.
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 ... [et al.] -- The United States / Arjun Makhijani ... [et al.] -- Russia and the territories of the former Soviet Union / Albert Donnay ... [et al.] -- 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.
Subject	Nuclear weapons plants -- Environmental aspects.
	Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects.
	Nuclear weapons plants -- Health aspects.
	Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Health aspects.
Added Author	Makhijani, Arjun.
	Hu, Howard.
	Yih, Katherine.
	International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
	Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Takoma Park, Md.)
Added Title	Nuclear waste lands
ISBN	0262133075 (alk. paper)