The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West

The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West
ISBN-10
1134954263
ISBN-13
9781134954261
Category
Social Science
Pages
361
Language
English
Published
2016-04-29
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Valerie L. Kuletz

Description

For decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now, another nuclear crisis looms over this region: the storage of tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste. Tainted Desert maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy.

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