Title: Half-lives and half-truths
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.
Subjects: Medical policy, Cold War, Radioactivity, Nuclear warfare, Soviet union, politics and government, United states, politics and government, Radiation injuries, Environmental Exposure, Adverse effects, Politics, Radioactive Hazard Release, Environmental aspects, Radiation
Places: United States, Soviet Union