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Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War (review)

Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War (review) the contemporary pacific · 20:2 (2008) the end of World War II, the focus of this volume is the ensuing cold war between the United States and the former Soviet Union. The book's thirteen chapters are authored or coauthored by fifteen anthropologists, most of whom have studied the culture and history of science, documented the legacy of the cold war, and conducted research with the aim to assist communities harmed by the arms race. The chapter by editor Barbara Rose Johnston, "Half-Lives, Half-Truths, and Other Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War," introduces the volume. While several nations are known to have nuclear weapons (including China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), others have the technical capacity to develop them. Drawing on the nuclear history of the United States and the Soviet Union, Johnston makes several observations that are of general relevance. The nuclear programs of both nations have had and continue to have devastating consequences for the peoples involved. Uranium mining and processing, weapon production facilities, the testing of nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste dumps have created "radiogenic communities." Such communities suffer from unseen dangers of radiological contamination, which result in an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Contemporary Pacific University of Hawai'I Press

Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War (review)

Kiste, Robert C.
The Contemporary Pacific , Volume 20 (2) – Aug 1, 2008
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the contemporary pacific · 20:2 (2008) the end of World War II, the focus of this volume is the ensuing cold war between the United States and the former Soviet Union. The book's thirteen chapters are authored or coauthored by fifteen anthropologists, most of whom have studied the culture and history of science, documented the legacy of the cold war, and conducted research with the aim to assist communities harmed by the arms race. The chapter by editor Barbara Rose Johnston, "Half-Lives, Half-Truths, and Other Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War," introduces the volume. While several nations are known to have nuclear weapons (including China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), others have the technical capacity to develop them. Drawing on the nuclear history of the United States and the Soviet Union, Johnston makes several observations that are of general relevance. The nuclear programs of both nations have had and continue to have devastating consequences for the peoples involved. Uranium mining and processing, weapon production facilities, the testing of nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste dumps have created "radiogenic communities." Such communities suffer from unseen dangers of radiological contamination, which result in an

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