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Title Half-lives and half-truths : confronting the radioactive legacies of the Cold War / edited by Barbara Rose Johnston.

Imprint Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.1799 H138 2007    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Series Resident scholar series
School for Advanced Research resident scholar series.
Note "A School for Advanced Research resident scholar book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Iņupiat's search for redress / Edith Turner -- Uranium mining and milling : Navajo experiences in the American Southwest / Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan Dawson, Gary Madsen -- Uranium mine workers, atomic downwinders, and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) : the nuclear legacy / Susan Dawson, 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, Joshua Levin -- Health assessment downwind : past abuses shadow future indicators / Marie Boutte -- 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, Kathleen Purvis-Roberts -- Nuclear legacies : arrogance, secrecy, ignorance, lies, silence, suffering, action / Laura Nader, Hugh Gusterson.
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.
Added Author Johnston, Barbara Rose.
School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Cover Title Half-lives & half-truths
ISBN 1930618824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781930618824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLM 101295842
YDXCP 2473418
IG# 9781930618824
AU@ 000041178871

 
    
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