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Half-lives, half-truths, and other radioactive legacies of the Cold War (2006)

Auteur	Barbaa Rose Johnston
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Datum	oktober 2006
Classificatie	3.01.5.30/43 (VS - KERNWAPENFABRIEKEN EN SCHOONMAAK)
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HALF-LIVES AND HALF-TRUTHS

Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War

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Half-Lives, Half-Truths, and Other Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War

Barbara Rose Johnston

Hall-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War 
examines some of the events and consequences of what many call the first nuclear 
age-the age when uranium was exploited, refined, enriched, and used to end a 
world war and fight a cold war. It is a book written by anthropologists who study 
the culture and history of science, document the environmental health problems that 
are the legacy of the Cold War-era nuclear war machine, and assist communities in 
their struggles to secure information, accountability, and meaningful remedy. In 
essays addressing the US and former Soviet nuclear war machines, contributors 
outline some of the human and environmental impacts of preparing for nuclear war 
and the related problems created by the heavy hand of the security state. Contributors 
also explore the dynamic tensions that structure human response to such problematic 
radioactive realities: How do people come to terms with their past, and the current 
and future risks from this past, and find ways to carry on? What strategies are 
employed to cope? What efforts are taken to secure meaningful remedy? What 
actions do people-survivors, families, communities, scientists, advocates, 
organizations, and governments-take to ensure never again?

The essays and case studies explore the biases and political constraints intrinsic to
atomic energy research on behalf of the security state, and the radioactive legacy 
of the Cold War in the United States and its former territories of Alaska and the 
Marshall Islands, and in the former Soviet Union. While these historical and 
ethnographic analyses of human response to the radioactive legacies of the 
Cold War–nuclear war machine reflect specific contexts within time and space, 
collectively they support a number of generalized observations that are relevant 
to current events.

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