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Book Synopsis Operation Cue, the Atomic Test Program of the Federal Civil Defense Administration in Cooperation with the Atomic Energy Commission, Nevada Test Site, Spring 1955 by : United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Download or read book Operation Cue, the Atomic Test Program of the Federal Civil Defense Administration in Cooperation with the Atomic Energy Commission, Nevada Test Site, Spring 1955 written by United States. Federal Civil Defense Administration and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fallout written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the story behind the story of the nuclear testing in southern Nevada during the 1950s when radioactive fallout drifted into surrounding communities. First sheep began dying, according to the author, and then people. The book places blame for the incident on all levels of government, from presidents to radiation monitors. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Hearings and Reports on Atomic Energy by : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Download or read book Hearings and Reports on Atomic Energy written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era by : C. Bright
Download or read book Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era written by C. Bright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army "Nike-Hercules" missiles, Air Force "Genie" rockets, and "BOMARC" and "Falcon" missiles were meant to counter a raid by attacking Soviet bombers. U.S. policy makers believed that the American weapons could safely compensate for technological limitations which otherwise made it difficult to destroy high flying, fast moving airplanes. Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era traces this armament from conception through deployment. Bright recounts official actions, doctrinal decisions, and public policies. It also discusses the widespread acceptance of these weapons by the American public, a result of being touted in news releases, featured in films and television episodes, and disseminated throughout society as a whole.
Download or read book Nukespeak written by Stephen Hilgartner and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Radiation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1074 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (4 download)
Book Synopsis The Nature of Radioactive Fallout and Its Effects on Man by : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Radiation
Download or read book The Nature of Radioactive Fallout and Its Effects on Man written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Radiation and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Radiation Safety and Major Activities in the Atomic Energy Programs by : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Download or read book Radiation Safety and Major Activities in the Atomic Energy Programs written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee ... and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 2130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elements of Controversy by : Barton C. Hacker
Download or read book Elements of Controversy written by Barton C. Hacker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.
Author :United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Radiation Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1268 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (1 download)
Book Synopsis The Nature of Radioactive Fallout and Its Effects on Man: June 4-7, 1957. pp. 1009-2065 by : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Radiation
Download or read book The Nature of Radioactive Fallout and Its Effects on Man: June 4-7, 1957. pp. 1009-2065 written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Radiation and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Nature of Radioactive Fallout and Its Effects on Man by : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Download or read book The Nature of Radioactive Fallout and Its Effects on Man written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 2316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Downwind of the Atomic State by : James C. Rice
Download or read book Downwind of the Atomic State written by James C. Rice and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades of nuclear testing in the American West In December of 1950, President Harry Truman gave authorization for the Atomic Energy Commission to conduct weapons tests and experiments on a section of a Nevada gunnery range. Over the next eleven years, more than a hundred detonations were conducted at the Nevada Test Site, and radioactive debris dispersed across the communities just downwind and through much of the country. In this important work, James C. Rice tells the hidden story of nuclear weapons testing and the negligence of the US government in protecting public health. Downwind of the Atomic State focuses on the key decisions and events shaping the Commission’s mismanagement of radiological contamination in the region, specifically on how the risks of fallout were defined and redefined, or, importantly, not defined at all, owing to organizational mistakes and the impetus to keep atomic testing going at all costs. Rice shows that although Atomic Energy Commission officials understood open-air detonations injected radioactive debris into the atmosphere, they did not understand, or seem to care, that the radioactivity would irrevocably contaminate these communities. The history of the atomic Southwest should be a wake-up call to everyone living in a world replete with large, complex organizations managing risky technological systems. The legacy of open-air detonations in Nevada pushes us to ask about the kinds of risks we are unwittingly living under today. What risks are we being exposed to by large organizations under the guise of security and science?
Book Synopsis Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-1963 by : Benjamin P. Greene
Download or read book Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-1963 written by Benjamin P. Greene and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research in government archives and private papers, this book analyzes the secret debate within the Eisenhower administration over the pursuit of a nuclear test-ban agreement. In contrast to much recent scholarship, this study concludes that Eisenhower strongly desired to reach an accord with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom to cease nuclear weapons testing. For Eisenhower, a test ban would ease Cold War tensions, slow the nuclear arms race, and build confidence toward disarmament; however, he faced continual resistance from his early scientific advisers, most notably Lewis L. Strauss and Edward Teller. Extensive research into previously unavailable government archival sources and collections of private manuscripts reveals the manipulative acts of test-ban opponents and other factors that inhibited Eisenhower s actions throughout his presidency. Meticulously analyzed, these sources underscore Eisenhower's dependence on the counsel of his science advisors, such as Strauss, James R. Killian, and George B. Kistiakowsky, to determine the course he pursued in regard to several components of his national security strategy. In addition to its comprehensive analysis of the test-ban debate, this book makes important contributions to the scholarly literature assessing Eisenhower's leadership and his approach to arms control. "
Book Synopsis Semiannual Report of the Atomic Energy Commission by : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Download or read book Semiannual Report of the Atomic Energy Commission written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Major Activities in the Atomic Energy Programs by : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Download or read book Major Activities in the Atomic Energy Programs written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Atmospheric Nuclear Tests by : Charles S. Shapiro
Download or read book Atmospheric Nuclear Tests written by Charles S. Shapiro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radionuclides produced by past nuclear weapon test explosions comprise the largest source of anthropogenic radioactivity released into the earth's atmosphere to date. This volume presents data and models about the fate of the released radionuclides and their possible effects on human health. It is divided into the following three parts: - Source Term Studies; - Dose Reconstruction; - Ecological and Health Effects, and comprises both Western and formerly secret Soviet research studies, illuminates past and current research.
Download or read book Atomic Tests in Nevada written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
