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Author Higuchi, Toshihiro, author.

Title Political fallout : nuclear weapons testing and the making of a global environmental crisis / Toshihiro Higuchi.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Political Fallout' is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crises-radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War-and the international response.
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction. "TO PUT AN END TO THE CONTAMINATION OF MAN'S ENVIRONMENT" -- Chapter 1. A STATE OF EMERGENCY -- Chapter 2. "ATOMIC-BOMB TUNA" -- Chapter 3. EPISTEMIC STALEMATE -- Chapter 4. EPISTEMIC DIVIDE -- Chapter 5. EPISTEMIC NEGOTIATIONS -- Chapter 6. THE LOCAL TURN -- Chapter 7. FALLOUT -- Conclusion. "WE CAN LIVE IN STRENGTH WITHOUT ADDING TO THE HAZARDS OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET" -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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Subject Nuclear weapons -- Testing.
Nuclear weapons -- Testing.
Radioactive fallout.
Radioactive fallout.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: POLITICAL FALLOUT. [Place of publication not identified] : STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020 1503612899 (OCoLC)1110441443
ISBN 9781503612907 (electronic book)
1503612902 (electronic book)
1503612899
9781503612891
0804785945
9780804785945