Book ID: CBB001020378

A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s (2009)

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Badash, Lawrence (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xiii + 403 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review de Syon, Guillaume (2011) Review of "A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s". Canadian Journal of History (pp. 485-487). unapi

Essay Review Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (2012) The Long Cold Nuclear Winter. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 727-731). unapi

Essay Review Olwell, Russell (2010) Two Views of Cassandra: Lawrence Badash, A Nuclear Winter's Tale; John Mueller, Atomic Obsession. Technology and Culture (pp. 1002-1005). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gordin, Michael D.
Susan Colbourn
Maar, Henry Richard, III
Ciglioni, Laura
Benjamin W. Goossen
Bury, Helen
Concepts
Cold War
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Arms race
Climate and climatology
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Greenland
Switzerland
Russia
Italy
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
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