Proving grounds
Subtitle: militarized landscapes, weapons testing, and the environmental impact of U.S. bases
By: edited by Edwin A. Martini
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780295994659
Subjects: Nuclear weapons; Military bases; Environmental aspects; Testing; American Military bases; Military policy
Other titles: Militarized landscapes, weapons testing, and the environmental impact of U.S. bases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (289-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: bases, places and the layered landscapes of American empire  -- Edwin A. Martini; title: Defending the nation, protecting the land: emergency powers and the militarization of American public lands  -- Brandon C. Davis; title: Weather, otters, and bombs: policy making, environmental science, and U.S. nuclear weapons testing, 1945-1958  -- Neil Oatsvall; title: Incident at Galisteo: the 1955 Teapot series and the mental landscape of contamination  -- Leisl Carr Childers; title: "This is really bad stuff buried here:" Agent Orange, Johnston Atoll, and the rise of military environmentalism  -- Edwiin A. Martini; title: The war on plants: drug control, militarization, and the rehabilitation of herbicides in U.S. foreign policy from Operation Ranch Hand to Plan Columbia  -- Daniel Weimer; title: Addressing environmental risks and mobilizing democracy? Policy on public participation in U.S. Military superfund sites  -- Jennifer Liss Ohayon; title: Reality revealed: U.S. military bases, environmental impact, and civil society in South Korea  -- Heejin Han and Yooil Bae; title: A wildlife insurgency: The endangered species act, citizen-initiated lawsuits, and the department of defense at the end of the Cold War  -- Katherine M. Keirns; title: Restoration and meaning on former military lands in the United States -- David G. Havlick.