Book ID: CBB000950771

Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War (2007)

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Johnston, Barbara Rose (Editor)


School for Advanced Research Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: x + 326 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the complicity between scientists, corporations, and government agencies in concealment of information and abusing the public trust. Contributors: Barbara Rose Johnston, David H. Price, Edith Turner, Susan E. Dawson, Gary E. Madsen, Edward Liebow, Theresa Satterfield, Joshua Levin, Marie I. Boutte, Holly M. Barker, Paula Garb, Cynthia Werner, Kathleen Purvis-Roberts, Laura Nader, and Hugh Gusterson.


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Review Krige, John (2008) Review of "Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 873). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Celso, Baldivieso, Jr.
Orsini, Davide
Walker, J. Samuel
Verhoff, Gwendolyn
Shun'ya, Yoshimi
Concepts
Nuclear and radioactive waste
Science and society
Radioactivity
Environmental sciences
Pollution, radioactive
Science and government
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Japan
Sardinia
Puerto Rico
Latin America
France
Institutions
United States Navy
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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