| Description |
1 online resource (x, 311 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Threshold illusions -- ch. 2. Radiation anxieties -- ch. 3. Other atomic scientists -- ch. 4. Forging an international consensus -- ch. 5. No atomic graveyards -- ch. 6. Environment as Cold War terrain -- ch. 7. Purely for political reasons -- ch. 8. Confronting environmentalism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
In the early 1990s, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, particularly since officials from the Soviet Union had denounced environmental pollution by the United States and Britain throughout the cold war. Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Why did scientists and politicians choose the sea for waste disposal? How did negotiations about the uses of the sea change the way scientists, government officials, and ultimately the lay public envisioned the oceans? Jacob Darwin Hamblin traces the development of the issue in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970s. This is an important book for students and scholars in the history of science who want to explore a striking case study of the conflicts that so often occur at the intersection of science, politics, and international diplomacy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Radioactive waste disposal in the ocean.
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Radioactive waste disposal in the ocean. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. Poison in the well. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813542201 0813542200 (DLC) 2007015498 (OCoLC)123232355 |
| ISBN |
9780813544236 (electronic book) |
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0813544238 (electronic book) |
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9780813542201 |
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0813542200 |
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1281397202 |
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9781281397201 |
| Standard No. |
9786611397203 |
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