Rutgers University Press, 1/24/Date: 2008. Hardcover. Good. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition. Faint spot on the top edge of the first couple of pages. 2008. Rutgers University Press ISBN 0813542200 9780813542201 [US]

ISBN10: 0813542200, ISBN13: 9780813542201, [publisher: Brand: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover In the early 1990s, Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that for the previous thirty years the Soviet Union had dumped vast amounts of dangerous radioactive waste into rivers and seas in blatant violation of international agreements. The disclosure caused outrage throughout the Western world, particularly since officials from the Soviet Union had denounced environmental pollution by the United States and Britain throughout the cold war.Poison in the Well provides a balanced look at the policy decisions, scientific conflicts, public relations strategies, and the myriad mishaps and subsequent cover-ups that were born out of the dilemma of where to house deadly nuclear materials. Why did scientists and politicians choose the sea for waste disposal? How did negotiations about the uses of the sea change the way scientists, government officials, and ultimately the lay public envisioned the oceans? Jacob Darwin Hamblin traces the development of the issue in Western countries from the end of World War II to the blossoming of the environmental movement in the early 1970s.This is an important book for students and scholars in the history of science who want to explore a striking case study of the conflicts that so often occur at the intersection of science, politics, and international diplomacy.
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542200, ISBN13: 9780813542201, [publisher: RUTGERS UNIV PR] Hardcover Zustand: Gut - Gebrauchs- und Lagerspuren. Außen: zerkratzt. | Seiten: 311
[Trebbin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542200, ISBN13: 9780813542201, [publisher: RUTGERS UNIV PR] Hardcover Zustand: Gut - Gebrauchs- und Lagerspuren. Außen: zerkratzt. | Seiten: 311
[Trebbin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542200, ISBN13: 9780813542201, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.15
[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]