Richards, Linda Marie (Author)
Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research
Volume: 38, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 56-82
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on law and nuclear developments.
Language: English
From the article: The fallout suits from 1958 to 1964 raised questions about the lack of equivalence between the known scientific evidence of fallout danger and the government's pronouncements of safety, both in terms of nuclear war preparations and fallout. The cases were instigated as an act of intellectual, legal, and even material self-protection. While literal fallout suits that protect against radiation and the fallout lawsuits mean different things, they share a related or polysemic meaning. Actual physical fallout suits are a material protection that can serve to make visible to an onlooker, or in a photo, that there is suspicion of radiation in the environment. The history of photography and radiation are inextricably bound by the discovery of x-rays. Invisible effects on the environment and humans can also be detected by photographic film degradation, and it is photographs that captured the response in Japan as the radiation from Fukushima spread.
...MoreDescription On suits used to protect people from radiation.
Article Higuchi, Toshihiro (2013) Tipping the Scale of Justice: The Fallout Suit of 1958 and the Environmental Legal Dimension of Nuclear Pacifism. Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research (pp. 33-55).
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