Half-lives and half-truths
Subtitle: confronting the radioactive legacies of the cold war
By: edited by Barbara Rose Johnston.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Santa Fe, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781930618824
Description: A collection of papers by activists and anthropologists reveals the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and processing, lived in regions dedicated to the construction of nuclear weapons or participated, often unknowingly, in radiation experiments. The nations and individuals, many of them members of indigenous or ethnic minority communities, are now demanding information about how the United States and the Soviet Union poisoned them and meaningful remedies for the damage done to them and the generations to come.