Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving
Author:   Scott L. Kirsch
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
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9780813536668


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 October 2005
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Scott L. Kirsch
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.596kg
ISBN:  

9780813536668


ISBN 10:   0813536669
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 October 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Geographical Engineering Chapter 1. Origins of a Cold War Experimental Program Chapter 2. Toward an ""Early and Obvious Demonstration"" Chapter 3. Geographies of Authority: Livermore, Cape Thompson, and Area 10  Chapter 4. Nuclear Craters Chapter 5. Pragmatic Engineering Worlds: Feasilbility and Trust, Off-Site Chapter 6. Epitaph: Technocracy, Geography, and the Rights to Knowledge Notes Index

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Proving Grounds offers a thoughtful, deeply researched, and very readable history of a determined if ultimately doomed effort to turn atomic energy to peaceful purposes by reconfiguring the contours of the Earth itself, starting with the Panama Canal. In exploring this unlikely byway of the Atomic Age, historical geographer Scott Kirsch casts a skeptical light on the American belief in progress through science and probes issues that remain as timely today as they were a generation ago.--Paul Boyer author of By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn o


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Scott L. Kirsch is an assistant professor of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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