Downwind of the Atomic State: Atmospheric Testing and the Rise of the Risk Society

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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
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Introduction: The Atomic State in the Great Basin
Part I: Fallout and Failures of Foresight
	1. Uranium and the Agency of Nature in the Risk Society
	2. Trinity and Lessons Not Learned
	3. The Emerging Atomic Spectacular, 1950–1951
	4. The Road to Upshot-Knothole, 1952
Part II: Upshot-Knothole and the Fluidity of Nature
	5. Dirty Harry and the Material-Discursive Bind, 1953
	6. Dead Sheep and the Fluidity of Fallout
Part III: The Long Road to Taming the Atomic State
	7. Respite, Reconfiguration, and Operation Teapot, 1954–1955
	8. Bulloch et al. v. United States: Deception and Dirty Science, 1956
	9. Operation Plumbbob: Accelerated Testing in the Shadow of a Moratorium, 1957
	10. Baby Teeth, Project Sunshine, and a Moratorium on Testing, 1958–1962
	11. Sedan, Silent Spring, and the Reenchantment of Nature
Conclusion: The Legacy of Atomic Testing in the Great Basin
Notes
Index
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