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Half-lives and half-truths : confronting the radioactive legacies of the cold war / edited by Barbara Rose Johnston.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: School for Advanced Research resident scholar seriesPublication details: Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781930618824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1930618824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Half-lives & half-truths [Cover title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RA393 .H33 2007
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Contents:
Half-lives, half-truths, and other radioactive legacies of the Cold War / Barbara Rose Johnston -- "More like us than mice" : radiation experiments with indigenous peoples / Barbara Rose Johnston -- Earle Reynolds : scientist, citizen, and Cold War dissident / David Price -- There are no peripheries to humanity : Northern Alaska nuclear dumping and the Iñupiat's search for redress / Edith Turner -- Uranium mining and milling : Navajo experiences in the American Southwest / Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan Dawson, and Gary Madsen -- Uranium mine workers, atomic downwinders, and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) : the nuclear legacy / Susan Dawson and Gary Madsen -- Hanford, tribal risks, and public health in an era of forced federalism / Edward Liebow -- From Cold War complex to nature preserve : diagnosing the breakdown of a multi-stakeholder decision process and its consequences for Rocky Flats / Theresa Satterfield and Joshua Levin -- Health assessment downwind : past abuses shadow future indicators / Marie Boutté -- From analysis to action : efforts to address the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands / Holly M. Barker -- Russia's radiation victims of Cold War weapons production surviving in a culture of secrecy and denial / Paula Garb -- Unraveling the secrets of the past : contested versions of nuclear testing in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan / Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts -- Nuclear legacies : arrogance, secrecy, ignorance, lies, silence, suffering, action / Laura Nader and Hugh Gusterson.
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"A School for Advanced Research resident scholar book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Half-lives, half-truths, and other radioactive legacies of the Cold War / Barbara Rose Johnston -- "More like us than mice" : radiation experiments with indigenous peoples / Barbara Rose Johnston -- Earle Reynolds : scientist, citizen, and Cold War dissident / David Price -- There are no peripheries to humanity : Northern Alaska nuclear dumping and the Iñupiat's search for redress / Edith Turner -- Uranium mining and milling : Navajo experiences in the American Southwest / Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan Dawson, and Gary Madsen -- Uranium mine workers, atomic downwinders, and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) : the nuclear legacy / Susan Dawson and Gary Madsen -- Hanford, tribal risks, and public health in an era of forced federalism / Edward Liebow -- From Cold War complex to nature preserve : diagnosing the breakdown of a multi-stakeholder decision process and its consequences for Rocky Flats / Theresa Satterfield and Joshua Levin -- Health assessment downwind : past abuses shadow future indicators / Marie Boutté -- From analysis to action : efforts to address the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands / Holly M. Barker -- Russia's radiation victims of Cold War weapons production surviving in a culture of secrecy and denial / Paula Garb -- Unraveling the secrets of the past : contested versions of nuclear testing in the Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan / Cynthia Werner and Kathleen Purvis-Roberts -- Nuclear legacies : arrogance, secrecy, ignorance, lies, silence, suffering, action / Laura Nader and Hugh Gusterson.