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Author : United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Inspector General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Auditing, Internal
ISBN : UIUC:30112105122458
Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060562977
Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:319510008500099
Author : United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Office of Inspector General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : UIUC:30112105189515
Author : Export-Import Bank of Washington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Export credit
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216524442
Author : United States. Selective Service System
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Draft
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09304746
Author : United States. Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1953-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HL5KHS
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science and state
ISBN : UCR:31210020563894
Author : United States. Department of Education. Office of Inspector General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : NYPL:33433065587192
Author : United States. Veterans Administration. Inspector General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754082340245
Author : United States. General Services Administration. Office of Inspector General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU14358360
Author : Neil Shafer Oatsvall
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817321468
"In "Atomic Environments," Neil S. Oatsvall examines how top policymakers in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations used environmental science in their work developing nuclear strategy at the beginning of the Cold War. While many people were involved in research and analysis during the period in question, it was at highest levels of executive decision-making where environmental science and nuclear science most clearly combined to shape the nation's policies. Because making and testing weapons, dealing with fallout and nuclear waste, and finding uses for radioactive byproducts required advanced understanding of how nuclear systems interacted with the world, policymakers utilized existing networks of environmental scientists-particularly meteorologists, geologists, and ecologists-to understand and control the United States' use of nuclear technology. Instead of profiling individuals, Oatsvall focuses on executive institutions, especially the leadership of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and high level officials in the Truman and Eisenhower White Houses, including the presidents, themselves. By scrutinizing institutional policymaking practices and agendas at the birth of the nuclear age, a constant set of values becomes clear: "Atomic Environments" reveals an emerging technocratic class that consistently valued knowledge about the environment to help create and maintain a nuclear arsenal, despite its existential threat to life on earth and the negative effects many nuclear technologies directly had on ecosystems and the American people, alike. "Atomic Environments" is divided into five chapters, each of which probes a different facet of the entanglement between environment, nuclear technologies, and policymaking. The first three chapters form a rough narrative arc about nuclear weapons. Chapter One situates bombs in their "natural habitat" by considering why nuclear tests occurred where they did and what testers thought they revealed about the natural environment and how they influenced it. Focusing on nuclear fallout, Chapter Two argues that nuclear tests actually functioned as a massive, uncontrolled experiment in world environments and human bodies that intermingled medicine, nuclear science, and environmental science. Chapter Three shows how the environmental knowledge gained in the first two chapters led to nuclear test ban treaty talks during the Eisenhower era, when the advancement of environmental knowledge and the natural world itself became crucial grounds of contention in the creation of nuclear test detection and evasion systems. The last two chapters step away from weapons to question how other nuclear technologies and facets of the U.S. nuclear program interacted with the natural world. Chapter Four examines agriculture's place in the U.S. nuclear program, from breakthrough advances in agricultural science including the use of radioisotopes and the direct application of radiation to food, to "atomic agriculture's" public relations value as a peaceful proxy, which shifted the moral calculus and further leveraged the U.S. government's atomic power. Chapter Five shows how knowledge of the natural world and the functioning of its systems proved important to uncovering the most effective ways to dispose of nuclear waste. Running throughout, Oatsvall consistently demonstrates how the natural world and the scientific disciplines that study it became integral parts of nuclear science, rather than adversarial fields of knowledge. But while nuclear technologies heavily depended on environmental science to develop, those same technologies frequently caused great harm to the natural world. Moreover, while some individuals expressed real anxieties about the damage wrought by nuclear technologies, policymakers as a class consistently made choices that privileged nuclear boosterism and secrecy, prioritizing institutional values over the lives and living systems that agencies like the AEC were ostensibly charged to protect. In the end, Oatsvall argues that although policymakers took their charge to protect and advance the welfare of the United States and its people seriously, they often failed to do so because their allegiance to the U.S. nuclear hierarchy blinded them to the real risks and dangers of the nuclear age"--
Author : Argonne National Laboratory. Radiological Physics Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Biophysics
ISBN : UOM:39015077579178
Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4263640
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UOM:39015026173966
