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

Higuchi, Toshihiro

 
9781503612891: Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis
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ISBN 10 : 1503612899 ISBN 13 : 9781503612891
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Political Fallout is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crises--radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War--and the international response. Beginning in 1945, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union detonated hundreds of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, scattering a massive amount of radioactivity across the globe. The scale of contamination was so vast, and radioactive decay so slow, that the cumulative effect on humans and the environment is still difficult to fully comprehend.

The international debate over nuclear fallout turned global radioactive contamination into an environmental issue, eventually leading the nuclear superpowers to sign the landmark Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) in 1963. Bringing together environmental history and Cold War history, Toshihiro Higuchi argues that the PTBT, originally proposed as an arms control measure, transformed into a dual-purpose initiative to check the nuclear arms race and radioactive pollution simultaneously. Higuchi draws on sources in English, Russian, and Japanese, considering both the epistemic differences that emerged in different scientific communities in the 1950s and the way that public consciousness around the risks of radioactive fallout influenced policy in turn. Political Fallout addresses the implications of science and policymaking in the Anthropocene--an era in which humans are confronting environmental changes of their own making.

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À propos de l?auteur

Toshihiro Higuchi is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1503612899
ISBN 13 
9781503612891
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0804785945 ISBN 13 :  9780804785945
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2020
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