Book ID: CBB000035162

Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974 (1994)

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Hacker, Barton C. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: xxiv + 614 pp.; notes; index

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Review Russell, E. (1995) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Environmental History Review (pp. 83-84). unapi

Review Lindee, S. (1995) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 689-90). unapi

Review Herken, G. (1995) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Journal of American History (pp. 820-21). unapi

Review Holl, J.M. (1996) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". American Historical Review (pp. 933-34). unapi

Review Westwick, P. (1996) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (p. 184). unapi

Review Seidel, R.W. (1996) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Technology and Culture (pp. 389-90). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Seidel, Robert W.
Hewlett, Richard G.
Hevly, Bruce W.
Lisa M. Richards
Williams, Robert C.
Walker, J. Samuel
Journals
Public Historian
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Social Text
Physics Today
Pacific Northwest Quarterly
North Carolina Historical Review
Publishers
University of California Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of North Carolina Press
St. Martin's Press
Oak Ridge Community Foundation
Iowa State University Press
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Research institutes; research stations
Regulation
Human rights
Science
People
Tuck, James L.
Teller, Edward
Harris, Gilbert Dennison
Graham, Frank Porter
Dean, Gordon E.
Auerbach, Stanley I.
Time Periods
20th century
Places
Spain
Institutions
United States. Atomic Energy Commission
United States. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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