Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War / Edition 1

by Barbara Rose Johnston

Overview

The long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now are the poisonous legacies of that "first nuclear age" coming to light. Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume reveal the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and processing, lived in regions dedicated to the construction of nuclear weapons or participated, often unknowingly, in radiation experiments. The nations and individuals, many of them members of indigenous or ethnic minority communities, are now demanding information about how the United States and the Soviet Union poisoned them and meaningful remedies for the damage done to them and the generations to come. As nuclear proliferation accelerates, this struggle takes on ever greater urgency.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930618824
Publisher:	School for Advanced Research Press
Publication date:	03/19/2007
Series:	A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Editorial Reviews

"For decades, the US and Soviet governments went to extraordinary lengths to disempower, marginalize, silence, and deceive the front-line victims of their reckless nuclear programs. These compelling essays—models of engaged anthropological scholarship—not only illuminate the victims' horrendous treatment but give them a voice in a way that broadens all of our understanding and restores to them a measure of their stolen dignity." — Peter Kuznick

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