Atomic Environments - Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945-1960

About the author

Neil S. Oatsvall is an independent scholar. His scholarship has appeared in Agricultural History, Environment and History, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, among other outlets.

Summary

Examines how policymakers at the highest levels of the executive branch of the US government utilized, were influenced by, and influenced environmental science as they sought to understand and guide the use of nuclear science and technology in the early years of the nuclear age.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Shafer Oatsvall
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9780817321468
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2146-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Nexus: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine; Nexus: New Histories of Scienc
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous