Political Fallout : Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis

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INTRODUCTION: “To Put an End to the Contamination of Man’s Environment”
CHAPTER 1: A State of Emergency: The Origins of Radiation Protection in Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1945–1953
CHAPTER 2: “Atomic-Bomb Tuna”: The Trans-Pacific Politics of Radiation Protection Standards, 1954–1955
CHAPTER 3: Epistemic Stalemate: Genetics and the Creation of Scientific Committees, 1954–1955
CHAPTER 4: Epistemic Divide: The U.S. and British Scientific Committees, 1955–1956
CHAPTER 5: Epistemic Negotiations: The United Nations Scientific Committee, 1956–1958
CHAPTER 6: The Local Turn: Community-Based Fallout Surveys in the United States and Britain, 1958–1960
CHAPTER 7: Fallout: The Making of the Partial Test Ban Treaty, 1961–1963
CONCLUSION: “We Can Live in Strength Without Adding to the Hazards of Life on This Planet”
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