Book ID: CBB000035162

Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974 (1994)

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Hacker, Barton C. (Author)


University of California Press
Publication date: 1994


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: xxiv + 614 pp.; notes; index

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Review Russell, E. (1995) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Environmental History Review (pp. 83-84). unapi

Review Lindee, S. (1995) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 689-90). unapi

Review Herken, G. (1995) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Journal of American History (pp. 820-21). unapi

Review Holl, J.M. (1996) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". American Historical Review (pp. 933-34). unapi

Review Westwick, P. (1996) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (p. 184). unapi

Review Seidel, R.W. (1996) Review of "Elements of controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974". Technology and Culture (pp. 389-90). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Seidel, Robert W.
Hevly, Bruce W.
Hewlett, Richard G.
Mazuzan, George T.
Walker, J. Samuel
Cantelon, Philip L.
Journals
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Public Historian
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Historian: Journal of History
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
History and Technology
Publishers
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
Iowa State University Press
Oak Ridge Community Foundation
St. Martin's Press
University of California Press
University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Radiation sickness; radiation toxicology; Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS)
Research institutes; research stations
Science
Human rights
People
Dean, Gordon E.
Graham, Frank Porter
Harris, Gilbert Dennison
Teller, Edward
Tuck, James L.
Time Periods
20th century
Places
Spain
Institutions
United States. Atomic Energy Commission
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
World Health Organization (WHO)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
United States. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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