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Political Fallout - Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis (Hardcover)
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Political Fallout - Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis (Hardcover)
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Political Fallout is the story of one of the first human-driven,
truly global environmental crises-radioactive fallout from nuclear
weapons testing during the Cold War-and the international response.
Beginning in 1945, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union
detonated hundreds of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, scattering
a massive amount of radioactivity across the globe. The scale of
contamination was so vast, and radioactive decay so slow, that the
cumulative effect on humans and the environment is still difficult
to fully comprehend. The international debate over nuclear fallout
turned global radioactive contamination into an environmental
issue, eventually leading the nuclear superpowers to sign the
landmark Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) in 1963. Bringing together
environmental history and Cold War history, Toshihiro Higuchi
argues that the PTBT, originally proposed as an arms control
measure, transformed into a dual-purpose initiative to check the
nuclear arms race and radioactive pollution simultaneously. Higuchi
draws on sources in English, Russian, and Japanese, considering
both the epistemic differences that emerged in different scientific
communities in the 1950s and the way that public consciousness
around the risks of radioactive fallout influenced policy in turn.
Political Fallout addresses the implications of science and
policymaking in the Anthropocene-an era in which humans are
confronting environmental changes of their own making.
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