Nuclear wastelands : a global guide to nuclear weapons production and its health and environmental effects

by a special commission of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research ; edited by Arjun Makhijani, Howard Hu, and Katherine Yih

A handbook for scholars, students, policy makers, journalists and peace and environmental activists, "Nuclear Wastelands" provides concise histories of the development of nuclear weapons programmes of every declared and de facto nuclear weapons power, as well as detailed surveys of the health and environmental effects of this development both in these countries and in non-nuclear nations involved in nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining. Among the more obvious but largely deferred costs of the Cold War are those related to the management of radioactive waste. The world is burdened with thousands of unwanted nuclear devices and mounting surpluses of weapons-grade plutonium and enriched uranium. In addition, the process of weapons production and testing has left many lands, aquifers, rivers, lakes and seas contaminated by a multitude of weapons-related poisons. This book follows the production process step by step and country by country from uranium mining to the final assembly and storage of weapons, analyzing the potential hazards of each step and compiling the most complete information available on the actual health and environmental effects, in each country involved. "Nuclear Wastelands" includes a wealth of information that has only recently come to light, particularly on the nuclear weapons programme of the former Soviet Union. It also features critical analyses of official public communications concerning weapons production, bringing to light governmental secrecy and outright deception that have led to the subversion of democratic principles, and have camouflaged the damage done to the very people and lands the weapons were meant to safeguard.

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  • A readiness to harm, Arjun Makhijani
  • methodology, Arjun Makhijani and Howard Hu
  • the production of nuclear weapons and environmental hazards, Arjun Makhijani and Scott Saleska
  • health hazards of nuclear weapons production, David Sumner et al
  • uranium mining and milling for military purposes, Katherine Yih et al
  • the United States, Arjun Mikhijani et al
  • Russia and the territories of the former Soviet Union, Albert Donnay et al
  • the United Kingdom, David Sumner et al
  • France, Alexandra Brooks and Howard Hu
  • near-nuclear and de facto nuclear weapons countries, Albert Donnay and Arjun Mikhijani
  • the global picture - summary and recommendations, Howard Hu and Arjun Makhijani.

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書名 Nuclear wastelands : a global guide to nuclear weapons production and its health and environmental effects
著作者等 Hu, Howard
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Makhijani, Arjun
Lown Bernard
et al
Yih Katherine
書名別名 Nuclear waste lands
出版元 MIT Press
刊行年月 c1995
ページ数 xxiv, 666 p.
大きさ 27 cm
ISBN 0262133075
NCID BA26047047
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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