| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Resident scholar series
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School for Advanced Research resident scholar series.
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| 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 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. |
| Subject |
Medical policy -- Soviet Union.
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Medical policy. |
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Soviet Union. |
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Medical policy -- United States.
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United States. |
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Radioactivity -- Soviet Union.
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Radioactivity. |
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Radioactivity -- United States.
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Cold War.
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Nuclear Warfare. |
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USSR. |
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United States. |
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Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects. |
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Politics. |
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Radiation Injuries. |
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Radioactive Hazard Release. |
| Added Author |
Johnston, Barbara Rose.
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School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
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| Cover Title |
Half-lives & half-truths |
| ISBN |
9781930618824 paperback alkaline paper |
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1930618824 paperback alkaline paper |
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