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.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1995.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 666 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585369518
- 9780585369518
- 0262278901
- 9780262278904
- Nuclear waste lands
- Nuclear weapons plants -- Environmental aspects
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects
- Nuclear weapons plants -- Health aspects
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Health aspects
- Nuclear warfare
- Mineral industries
- Heavy metals
- Actinide elements
- War
- Metals
- Chemical elements
- Industries
- Social problems
- Inorganic compounds
- Sociology
- Social sciences
- Plutonium
- Uranium
- Nuclear Warfare
- Radiation Effects
- Radioactive Pollutants -- adverse effects
- Mining
- Plutonium -- adverse effects
- Power Plants
- Uranium -- adverse effects
- Metals, Heavy
- Actinoid Series Elements
- Extraction and Processing Industry
- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture
- Complex Mixtures
- Electrical Equipment and Supplies
- Armed Conflicts
- Metals
- Equipment and Supplies
- Elements
- Elements, Radioactive
- Chemicals and Drugs
- Industry
- Social Problems
- Technology, Industry, Agriculture
- Inorganic Chemicals
- Sociology
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
- Social Sciences
- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
- Plutonium
- Uranium
- Radioactive Pollutants
- Armes nucléaires -- Usines -- Aspect de l'environnement
- Armes nucléaires -- Essais -- Aspect de l'environnement
- Guerre nucléaire
- Mines -- Industrie
- Éléments traces métalliques
- Actinides
- Guerre
- Métaux
- Éléments chimiques
- Industrie
- Problèmes sociaux
- Composés inorganiques
- Sociologie
- Sciences sociales
- Plutonium
- Uranium
- nuclear wars
- mining
- armed conflicts
- wars
- metal
- industries (organizations)
- industry (economic concept)
- social issues
- sociology
- social sciences
- uranium
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety
- Nuclear weapons plants -- Environmental aspects
- Nuclear weapons plants -- Health aspects
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects
- Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Health aspects
- Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Engineering & Applied Sciences
- Environmental Engineering
- 363.17/99 20
- TD195.N85 N83 1995eb
- 1999 E-477
- WN 615
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 597-640) and index.
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, Howard Hu, and Alistair Woodward -- Uranium mining and milling for military purposes / Katherine Yih [and others] -- The United States / Arjun Makhijani [and others] -- Russia and the territories of the former Soviet Union / Albert Donnay [and others] -- The United Kingdom / David Sumner, Rebecca Johnson, and William Peden -- France / Albert Donnay and Martin Kuster -- China / Alexandra Brooks and Howard Hu -- Near-nuclear and de facto nuclear weapons countries / Albert Donnay and Arjun Makhijani -- The global picture : summary and recommendations / Howard Hu and Arjun Makhijani.
Print version record.
English.
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