Nuked : echoes of the Hiroshima bomb in St. Louis /

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"Nuked recounts the long-term effects of radiological exposure in St. Louis, Missouri--the city that refined uranium for the first self- sustaining nuclear reaction and the first atomic bomb. As part of the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II, the refining created an enormous amoun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morice, Linda C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]
Temas:
Manhattan Project (U.S.) > History.
Mallinckrodt Chemical Works (Saint Louis, Mo.) > History.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Mallinckrodt Chemical Works (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Radiation > Health aspects > Missouri > Saint Louis County.
Radiation > Physiological effect > Missouri > Saint Louis County.
Uranium > Toxicology > Missouri > Saint Louis County.
Uranium > Environmental aspects > Missouri > Saint Louis County.
Radiation > Safety measures.
Radioactive waste disposal > Environmental aspects > Missouri > Saint Louis Metropolitan Area.
Radiation Protection
Rayonnement > Effets physiologiques > Missouri > Saint Louis (Comté)
Uranium > Toxicologie > Missouri > Saint Louis (Comté)
Uranium > Aspect de l'environnement > Missouri > Saint Louis (Comté)
Rayonnement > Sécurité > Mesures.
Uranium > Toxicology
Uranium > Environmental aspects
Radioactive waste disposal > Environmental aspects
Radiation > Safety measures
Radiation > Physiological effect
Radiation > Health aspects
Missouri > Saint Louis Metropolitan Area
Missouri > Saint Louis County
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One. The Contamination. The secret weapon
  • The deposit
  • Part Two. The Dissemination. The contamination spreads
  • Bureaucratic blues
  • Part Three. The People. The advocates
  • An environmental justice watershed
  • A part of the whole.

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