Nuclear wastelands
Subtitle: a global guide to nuclear weapons production and its health and environmental effects
By: 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.
Contributors: Makhijani, Arjun.; Hu, Howard.; Yih, Katherine.; International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.; Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Takoma Park, Md.)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 666
Subjects: Nuclear weapons plants -- Environmental aspects; Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects; Nuclear weapons plants -- Health aspects; Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Health aspects
Other titles: Nuclear waste lands
Description: A handbook for scholars, students, policy makers, journalists, and peace and environmental activists, Nuclear Wastelands provides concise histories of the development of nuclear weapons programs of every declared and de facto nuclear weapons power, as well as detailed surveys of the health and environmental effects of this development both in these countries and in non-nuclear nations involved in nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining.

This book follows the production process step by step and country by country from uranium mining to the final assembly and storage of weapons, analyzing the potential hazards of each step and compiling the most complete information available on the actual health and environmental effects in each country involved.

Nuclear Wastelands includes information that has only recently come to light, particularly on the nuclear weapons program of the former Soviet Union.

It also features critical analyses of official public communications concerning the health and environmental consequences of nuclear weapons production, bringing to light governmental secrecy and outright deception that have led to the subversion of democratic principles and camouflaged the damage done to the very people and lands the weapons were meant to safeguard.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [597]-640) and index.