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Title Proving grounds : militarized landscapes, weapons testing, and the environmental impact of U.S. bases / edited by Edwin A. Martini
Edition 1st edition
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 333 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: Bases, Places, and the Layered Landscapes of American Empire / Edwin A. Martini; 1. Defending the Nation, Protecting the Land: Emergency Powers and the Militarization of American Public Lands / Brandon C. Davis; 2. Weather, Otters, and Bombs: Policy Making, Environmental Science, and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1945-1958 / Neil Oatsvall; 3. Incident at Galisteo: The 1955 Teapot Series and the Mental Landscape of Contamination / Leisl Carr Childers
4. ""This Is Really Bad Stuff Buried Here"": Agent Orange, Johnston Atoll, and the Rise of Military Environmentalism / Edwin A. Martini5. The War on Plants: Drug Control, Militarization, and the Rehabilitation of Herbicides in U.S. Foreign Policy from Operation Ranch Hand to Plan Colombia / Daniel Weimer; 6. Addressing Environmental Risks and Mobilizing Democracy?: Policy on Public Participation in U.S. Military Superfund Sites / Jennifer Liss Ohayon; 7. Reality Revealed: U.S. Military Bases, Environmental Impact, and Civil Society in South Korea / Heejin Han and Yooil Bae
8. A Wildlife Insurgency: The Endangered Species Act, Citizen-Initiated Lawsuits, and the Department of Defense at the End of the Cold War / Katherine M. Keirns9. Restoration and Meaning on Former Military Lands in the United States / David G. Havlick; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (289-301) and index
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Subject Military bases -- Environmental aspects -- United States
Military bases, American -- Environmental aspects
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Military bases, American -- Environmental aspects
Military bases -- Environmental aspects
Military policy -- Environmental aspects
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects
Kernwaffentest
Militärstützpunkt
Umweltfaktor
Umweltschaden
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy -- Environmental aspects
Subject United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Martini, Edwin A., 1975- editor.
LC no. 2021692842
ISBN 9780295805948
0295805943
Other Titles Militarized landscapes, weapons testing, and the environmental impact of U.S. bases