Political fallout : nuclear weapons testing and the making of a global environmental crisis

• Material Type: 図書
• ISBN: 9780804785945; 1503612899 (paperback); 9781503612891 (paperback)
• Title: Political fallout : nuclear weapons testing and the making of a global environmental crisis
• Author/Editor: Toshihiro Higuchi.
• Author Heading: 樋口, 敏広 ヒグチ, トシヒロ ( 00885448 )Authorities
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press (出版)
• Publication Date: [2020]; 著作権日付 : ©2020
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2020
• Extent: xvii, 301 pages
• Other physical details: illustrations, maps
• Size: 24 cm
• Place of Publication (Country Code): US
• Text Language Code: eng
• Content Type: txt : text
• Media Type: n : unmediated
• Carrier Type: nc : volume
• Subject Heading: Nuclear weapons--Testing.; Radioactive fallout.; Partieller Atomteststoppvertrag; Kernwaffentest; Politik; Radioaktiver Niederschlag; Wissenschaft
• LCC: U264
• DDC: 355.0217
• NDLC: NG153
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (Content): Political Fallout' is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crises-radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War-and the international response. Beginning in 1945, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union detonated hundreds of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, scattering a massive amount of radioactivity across the globe. The scale of contamination was so vast, and radioactive decay so slow, that the cumulative effect on humans and the environment is still difficult to fully comprehend. 0The international debate over nuclear fallout turned global radioactive contamination into an environmental issue, eventually leading the nuclear superpowers to sign the landmark Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) in 1963. Bringing together environmental history and Cold War history, Toshihiro Higuchi argues that the PTBT, originally proposed as an arms control measure, transformed into a dual-purpose initiative to check the nuclear arms race and radioactive pollution simultaneously. Higuchi draws on sources in English, Russian, and Japanese, considering both the epistemic differences that emerged in different scientific communities in the 1950s and the way that public consciousness around the risks of radioactive fallout influenced policy in turn. 'Political Fallout' addresses the implications of science and policymaking in the Anthropocene-an era in which humans are confronting environmental changes of their own making.
• Collection (particular): 日本関係外国語図書
• Holding library: 国立国会図書館
• Call No.: NG153-D4
• Data Provider (Database): 国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書; https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
• Bibliographic ID (NDL): 030393540; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/030393540
• OCLC No.: 1110441443; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1110441443
• Cataloging Rule: RDA
• Bibliographic Record Category (NDL): 211