Downwind of the Atomic State: Atmospheric Testing and the Rise of the Risk Society - Hardcover

How the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades of
nuclear testing in the American West

In December of 1950, President Harry Truman gave authorization for the Atomic Energy Commission to conduct weapons tests and experiments on a section of a Nevada gunnery range. Over the next eleven years, more than a hundred detonations were conducted at the...