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12 produkter
Arming Mother Nature
The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
Häftad, 2017
638 kr
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When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement--and its dire predictions--owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture.In Arming Mother …
The Wretched Atom
America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
Inbunden, 2021
432 kr
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A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes.After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that …
Wretched Atom
America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
E-bok, 2021
319 kr
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A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that …
Wretched Atom
America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology
E-bok, 2021
319 kr
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A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that …
Arming Mother Nature
The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
Inbunden, 2013
422 kr
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Famines. Diseases. Natural catastrophes. In 1945, scientists imagined these as the future faces of war. The United States and its allies prepared for a global struggle against the Soviet Union by using science to extend "total war" ideas to the natural environment. Biological and radiological …
Arming Mother Nature
The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
E-bok, 2013
283 kr
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When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement--and its dire predictions--owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture. In Arming Mother …
Arming Mother Nature
The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
E-bok, 2013
283 kr
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When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, writes Jacob Darwin Hamblin, the movement--and its dire predictions--owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture. In Arming Mother …
Oceanographers and the Cold War
Disciples of Marine Science
Häftad, 2022
472 kr
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A political history of twentieth-century oceanographyOceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists. It is the first book to examine the study of the oceans during the Cold War era and explore the international focus of American oceanographers, taking …
Oceanographers and the Cold War
Disciples of Marine Science
Inbunden, 2005
1750 kr
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A political history of twentieth-century oceanographyOceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists. It is the first book to examine the study of the oceans during the Cold War era and explore the international focus of American oceanographers, taking …
Poison in the Well
Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Häftad, 2009
438 kr
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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, …
Making the Unseen Visible
Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure
Av Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Linda Marie Richards
Häftad, 2023
441 kr
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Many of the effects of nuclear fallout and radiation have been intentionally hidden by governments around the world. Public knowledge of these effects has been driven by activists who have demanded recognition and justice. These activists often exist in tension with government and academic experts, …
Science in the Early Twentieth Century
An Encyclopedia
Inbunden, 2005
1136 kr
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The first A–Z resource on the history of science from 1900 to 1950 examining the dynamic between science and the social, political, and cultural forces of the era.Though many books have highlighted the great scientific discoveries of the early 1900s, few have tackled the wider context in which …
