Book ID: CBB000301522

Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska (2002)

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Kohlhoff, Dean W. (Author)


University of Washington Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: x + 166 pp., maps, bib., index
Language: English

Description Concerns military, scientific, economic, environmental, and social implications of the nuclear tests.


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Review Dasher, Douglas (2004) Review of "Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 746). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bini, Elisabetta
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Alison Fields
Ciglioni, Laura
Zaloga, Steve
Wellerstein, Alex
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Cold War
Military technology
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Switzerland
Russia
Japan
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
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