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  title info:
    title: Political fallout
    sub title: nuclear weapons testing and the making of a global environmental crisis
  name:
    name part: Higuchi, Toshihiro
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "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.
  note: Toshihiro Higuchi.
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear weapons
    topic: Testing
  subject:
    topic: Radioactive fallout
  classification: U264 .H56 2020
  classification: 355.0217
  identifier: 1503612899
  identifier: 9781503612891
  identifier: 0804785945
  identifier: 9780804785945
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190728
    record change date: 20201020065649.0
    record identifier: in00004140268