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Downwind of the Atomic State : atmospheric testing and the rise of the risk society / James C. Rice.
- 作者： Rice, James C. author.
- 出版： New York : New York University Press ©2023
- 主題： Nuclear weapons , TestingEnvironmental aspects , TestingHistory , Radioactive fallout , Radioactive pollution , Nuclear weapons testing victims , Nevada National Security Site (Nev.) , Environmental aspects. , Great Basin , Environmental conditions. , United States , Military policy , Nuclear weapons--Testing--Environmental aspects--United States. , Nuclear weapons--Testing--History--20th century.--United States , Radioactive fallout--West (U.S.) , Radioactive pollution--West (U.S.) , Nuclear weapons testing victims--West (U.S.) , Nevada National Security Site (Nev.)--Environmental aspects. , Great Basin--Environmental conditions. , United States--Military policy--20th century.
- ISBN： 9781479815340 (hardcover): NT$1069 、 1479815349 (hardcover)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 005718067 | 機讀編目格式
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"This book employs archival research and theoretical insights on the organizational production of risk to examine the hazards of atmospheric atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site and radioactive fallout, and the effects on the communities lying downwind"--
摘要註
"In December of 1950, President Harry Truman gave authorization for the Atomic Energy Commission to conduct weapons tests and experiments on a section of a Nevada gunnery range. Over the next eleven years, more than a hundred detonations were conducted at the Nevada Test Site, and radioactive debris dispersed across the communities just downwind and through much of the country. In this important work, James C. Rice tells the hidden story of nuclear weapons testing and the negligence of the US government in protecting public health. Downwind of the Atomic State focuses on the key decisions and events shaping the Commission’s mismanagement of radiological contamination in the region, specifically on how the risks of fallout were defined and redefined, or, importantly, not defined at all, owing to organizational mistakes and the impetus to keep atomic testing going at all costs. Rice shows that although Atomic Energy Commission officials understood open-air detonations injected radioactive debris into the atmosphere, they did not understand, or seem to care, that the radioactivity would irrevocably contaminate these communities. The history of the atomic Southwest should be a wake-up call to everyone living in a world replete with large, complex organizations managing risky technological systems. The legacy of open-air detonations in Nevada pushes us to ask about the kinds of risks we are unwittingly living under today. What risks are we being exposed to by large organizations under the guise of security and science?"--amazon.com
內容註
Introduction : the Atomic State in the Great Basin -- Uranium and the agency of nature in the risk society -- Trinity and lessons not learned -- The emerging atomic spectacular, 1950-51 -- The road to Upshot-Knothole, 1952 -- Dirty Harry and the material-discursive bind, 1953 -- Dead sheep and the fluidity of fallout -- Respite, reconfiguration, and Operation Teapot, 1954-55 -- Bulloch et al. v. United States : deception and dirty science, 1956 -- Operation Plumbbob : accelerated testing in the shadow of a moratorium, 1957 -- Baby teeth, Project Sunshine, and a moratorium on testing, 1958-1962 -- Sedan, Silent spring, and the re-enchantment of nature -- Conclusion : the legacy of atomic testing in the Great Basin.