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Poison in the well : radioactive waste in the oceans at the dawn of the nuclear age /

In the early 1990s, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • ch. 1. Threshold illusions
  • ch. 2. Radiation anxieties
  • ch. 3. The other atomic scientists
  • ch. 4. Forging an international consensus
  • ch. 5. No atomic graveyards
  • ch. 6. The environment as Cold War terrain
  • ch. 7. Purely for political reasons
  • ch. 8. Confronting environmentalism
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.