Book ID: CBB001552222

Range Wars: The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range (2014)

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Edgington, Ryan H. (Author)


University of Nebraska Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xiii + 268 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English

Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile capabilities. In this environmental history of White Sands Missile Range, Ryan H. Edgington traces the uneasy relationships between the military, the federal government, local ranchers, environmentalists, state game and fish personnel, biologists and ecologists, state and federal political figures, hunters, and tourists after World War II--as they all struggled to define and productively use the militarized western landscape. Environmentalists, ranchers, tourists, and other groups joined together to transform the meaning and uses of this region, challenging the authority of the national security state to dictate the environmental and cultural value of a rural American landscape. As a result, White Sands became a locus of competing geographies informed not only by the far-reaching intellectual, economic, and environmental changes wrought by the Cold War but also by regional history, culture, and traditions

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Authors & Contributors
Masco, Joseph
Edgington, Ryan H.
Rispoli, Giulia
Alessio Patalano
Fabrizio Li Vigni
Olšáková, Doubravka
Concepts
Cold War
Environmentalism
Weapons
Military technology
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
New Mexico (U.S.)
United States
Soviet Union
Japan
Korea
Great Britain
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Santa Fe Institute
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
United States Air Force (USAF)
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