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Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War
Ist Teil von
The Contemporary Pacific, 2008, Vol.20 (2), p.500-503
Ort / Verlag
Honolulu: CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES & UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I PRESS
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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The book's thirteen chapters are authored or coauthored by fifteen anthropologists, most of whom have studied the culture and history of science, documented the legacy of the cold war, and conducted research with the aim to assist communities harmed by the arms race. Uranium mining and processing, weapon production facilities, the testing of nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste dumps have created "radiogenic communities." The Nevada Test Site experienced more nuclear detonations than any other place on the earth (100 atmospheric and 800 underground tests), and communities in Nevada and neighboring states have suffered illnesses and a range of disorders similar to those in the Marshall Islands. The production of weapons-grade nuclear fuel and the detonating devices for hydrogen bombs at the Hanford site in Washington State and Rocky Flats near Denver, Colorado, have left large areas of contamination.