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Poison in the well : radioactive waste in the oceans at the dawn of the nuclear age
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ISBN: 1281397202 9786611397203 0813544238 9780813544236 9780813542201 0813542200 9781281397201 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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In the early 1990's, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, particularly since officials from the Soviet Union had denounced environmental pollution by the United States and Britain throughout the cold war. Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Why did scientists and politicians choose the sea for waste disposal? How did negotiations about the uses of the sea change the way scientists, government officials, and ultimately the lay public envisioned the oceans? Jacob Darwin Hamblin traces the development of the issue in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970's. This is an important book for students and scholars in the history of science who want to explore a striking case study of the conflicts that so often occur at the intersection of science, politics, and international diplomacy.


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Arming Mother Nature : the birth of catastrophic environmentalism
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ISBN: 0199911592 0199908494 9780199908493 9780199740055 0199740054 9780199911592 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press,

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Are today's environmental crises linked to the plans for World War 3? The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend 'total war' ideas to the natural environment. This book links environmental warfare to the environmental crises of the 1970s and beyond.


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Oceanographers and the cold war : disciples of marine science
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ISBN: 0295801859 Year: 2005 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,

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