Trisha T. Pritikin The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice 9780700629046

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Автор: Trisha T. Pritikin
Название: The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice
ISBN: 9780700629046
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Америк

Военная история

Военные действия и оборона

Оружие и снаряжение

Ядерное оружие

Индивидуальное и общественное здравоохранение

Факторы окружающей среды

Экология, охрана окружающей среды, экологичные технологии

ISBN-10: 0700629041
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 360
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 30.03.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 28
Ключевые слова: Military history,Environmental science, engineering & technology,Personal & public health,Environmental factors,History of the Americas,Weapons & equipment,Nuclear weapons, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century,HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare,SCIEN
Основная тема: Military history,Personal & public health,Environmental factors,History of the Americas,Environmental science, engineering & technology,Weapons & equipment,Nuclear weapons, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare,HISTORY / United States / 20th Century,SCIENC
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: For more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production. For those who lived in the vicinity, many of them families of Hanford workers, the consequences soon became apparent as rates of illness and death steadily climbed - despite repeated assurances from the Atomic Energy Commission that the facility posed no threat. Trisha T. Pritikin, who has battled a lifetime of debilitating illness to become a lawyer and advocate for her fellow downwinders, tells the devastating story of those who were harmed in Hanfords wake and, seeking answers and justice, were subjected to yet more suffering.At the center of The Hanford Plaintiffs are the oral histories of twenty-four people who joined In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation Litigation, the class-action suit that sought recognition of, and recompense for, the grievous injury knowingly caused by Hanford. Radioactive contamination of American communities was not uncommon during the wartime Manhattan Project, nor during the Cold War nuclear buildup that followed. Pritikin interweaves the stories of people poisoned by Hanford with a parallel account of civilians downwind of the Nevada atomic test site, who suffer from identical radiogenic diseases. Against the heartrending details of personal illness and loss and, ultimately, persistence in the face of a legal system that protects the government on all fronts and at all costs, The Hanford Plaintiffs draws a damning picture of the failure of the US Congress and the Judiciary to defend the American public and to adequately redress a catastrophic wrong. Documenting the legal, medical, and human cost of one communitys struggle for justice, this book conveys in clear and urgent terms the damage done to ordinary Americans in the name of business, progress, and patriotism.
Дополнительное описание: History of the Americas|Personal and public health / health education|Environmental factors|Weapons and equipment|Nuclear weapons|Military history|Environmental science, engineering and technology

The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice, Trisha T. Pritikin