num_pages: 362
description: For decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now, another nuclear crisis looms over this the storage of tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste. Tainted Desert maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy.
language: English
title: The Tainted Desert
titlecomplete: The Tainted Desert (Thematic Studies in Latin America)
genres: Environment, History
ratings_count: 43
publisher: Routledge