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001562178 1001_ $$aRice, James C.,$$eauthor.
001562178 24510 $$aDownwind of the Atomic State :$$bAtmospheric Testing and the Rise of the Risk Society /$$cJames C. Rice.
001562178 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bNew York University Press,$$c[2024]
001562178 264_4 $$c2024
001562178 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b47 b/w illustrations
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001562178 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tAbbreviations --$$tIntroduction: The Atomic State in the Great Basin --$$tPart I Fallout and Failures of Foresight --$$t1 Uranium and the Agency of Nature in the Risk Society --$$t2 Trinity and Lessons Not Learned --$$t3 The Emerging Atomic Spectacular, 1950-1951 --$$t4 The Road to Upshot-Knothole, 1952 --$$tPart II Upshot-Knothole and the Fluidity of Nature --$$t5 Dirty Harry and the Material-Discursive Bind, 1953 --$$t6 Dead Sheep and the Fluidity of Fallout --$$tPart III The Long Road to Taming the Atomic State --$$t7 Respite, Reconfiguration, and Operation Teapot, 1954-1955 --$$t8 Bulloch et al. v. United States: Deception and Dirty Science, 1956 --$$t9 Operation Plumbbob: Accelerated Testing in the Shadow of a Moratorium, 1957 --$$t10 Baby Teeth, Project Sunshine, and a Moratorium on Testing, 1958-1962 --$$t11 Sedan, Silent Spring, and the Reenchantment of Nature --$$tConclusion: The Legacy of Atomic Testing in the Great Basin --$$tNotes --$$tIndex --$$tAbout the Author
001562178 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
001562178 520__ $$aHow the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades ofnuclear testing in the American WestIn December of 1950, President Harry Truman gave authorization for the Atomic Energy Commission to conduct weapons tests and experiments on a section of a Nevada gunnery range. Over the next eleven years, more than a hundred detonations were conducted at the Nevada Test Site, and radioactive debris dispersed across the communities just downwind and through much of the country. In this important work, James C. Rice tells the hidden story of nuclear weapons testing and the negligence of the US government in protecting public health.Downwind of the Atomic State focuses on the key decisions and events shaping the Commission's mismanagement of radiological contamination in the region, specifically on how the risks of fallout were defined and redefined, or, importantly, not defined at all, owing to organizational mistakes and the impetus to keep atomic testing going at all costs. Rice shows that although Atomic Energy Commission officials understood open-air detonations injected radioactive debris into the atmosphere, they did not understand, or seem to care, that the radioactivity would irrevocably contaminate these communities.The history of the atomic Southwest should be a wake-up call to everyone living in a world replete with large, complex organizations managing risky technological systems. The legacy of open-air detonations in Nevada pushes us to ask about the kinds of risks we are unwittingly living under today. What risks are we being exposed to by large organizations under the guise of security and science?
001562178 546__ $$aIn English.
001562178 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024).
001562178 650_6 $$aArmes nucléaires$$xEssais$$xAspect de l'environnement$$zÉtats-Unis.
001562178 650_7 $$aSCIENCE / Space Science.$$2bisacsh
001562178 650_0 $$aNuclear weapons testing victims$$zWest (U.S.)
001562178 650_0 $$aNuclear weapons$$xTesting$$xEnvironmental aspects$$zUnited States.$$0(DLC)sh 85092943
001562178 650_0 $$aNuclear weapons$$zUnited States$$xTesting$$xHistory$$y20th century.$$0(DLC)sh 85092943
001562178 650_0 $$aRadioactive fallout$$zWest (U.S.)
001562178 650_0 $$aRadioactive pollution$$zWest (U.S.)
001562178 653__ $$aAndrew Pickering.
001562178 653__ $$aAtomic Energy Commission.
001562178 653__ $$aGreat Basin Desert.
001562178 653__ $$aNevada Test Site.
001562178 653__ $$aUlrich Beck.
001562178 653__ $$aarchival research.
001562178 653__ $$aatmospheric detonations.
001562178 653__ $$adownwind residents.
001562178 653__ $$adownwind.
001562178 653__ $$amateriality.
001562178 653__ $$aopen-air detonations.
001562178 653__ $$aorganizational failures.
001562178 653__ $$aperformativity of nature.
001562178 653__ $$aradioactive contamination.
001562178 653__ $$aradioactive fallout.
001562178 653__ $$arationality.
001562178 653__ $$arisk society.
001562178 653__ $$asociotechnical systems.
001562178 653__ $$auranium.
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