Book ID: CBB000078103

Fallout: A historian reflects on America's half-century encounter with nuclear weapons (1998)

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Boyer, Paul (Author)


Ohio State University Press


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: xix + 280 pp.; index

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Review Farrell, J.J. (1999) Review of "Fallout: A historian reflects on America's half-century encounter with nuclear weapons". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 384-85). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Michael E. Mann
Tom Toles
Maar, Henry Richard, III
Nikolas Dörr
Jacobs, Charlotte
Wittner, Lawrence S.
Journals
Technology and Culture
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Social Studies of Science
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
Journal of Historical Sociology
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Suhrkamp Verlag
Stanford University Press
Oxford University Press
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Cornell University Press
Concepts
Public opinion
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science
Public health
Cold War
Technology and politics
People
Toftoy, Holger N.
Salk, Jonas Edward
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Marres, Noortje
Latour, Bruno
Dippold, Andreas
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Germany
Soviet Union
Portugal
Poland
European Union
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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