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Political Fallout - Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis (Paperback)
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Political Fallout - Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis (Paperback)
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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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