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Half-lives and half-truths : confronting the radioactive legacies of the cold war
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- Creator
- edited by Barbara Rose Johnston
- Other Title
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- Half-lives & half-truths
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- x, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781930618824, 1930618824
- OCLC
- ocm77520624
- "A School for Advanced Research resident scholar book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 / 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
Subjects
- Medical policy -- Soviet Union.
- Medical policy -- United States.
- Radioactivity -- Soviet Union.
- Radioactivity -- United States.
- Cold War.
- Nuclear Warfare -- USSR.
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- Nuclear Warfare -- United States.
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- Radioactive Hazard Release -- USSR.
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- Radioactive Hazard Release -- United States.
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- Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects -- USSR.
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- Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects -- United States.
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- Politics -- USSR.
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- Politics -- United States.
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- Radiation Injuries -- USSR.
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- Radiation Injuries -- United States.
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