Half-Lives & Half-Truths - Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)

The long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now are the poisonous legacies of that "first nuclear age" coming to light. Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume reveal the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and processing, lived in regions dedicated to the construction of nuclear weapons or participated, often unknowingly, in radiation experiments. The nations and individuals, many of them members of indigenous or ethnic minority communities, are now demanding information about how the United States and the Soviet Union poisoned them and meaningful remedies for the damage done to them and the generations to come. As nuclear proliferation accelerates, this struggle takes on ever greater urgency.

General

Imprint:	School of American Research Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2007
Editors:	Barbara Rose Johnston
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
Edition:	Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-930618-82-4
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Nuclear issues Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	1-930618-82-4
Barcode:	9781930618824

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