Proving grounds : project plowshare and the unrealized dream of nuclear earthmoving /
Kirsch, Scott, 1967-
Proving grounds : project plowshare and the unrealized dream of nuclear earthmoving / Scott Kirsch. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2005. - xi, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-243) and index.
Geographical engineering -- Origins of a cold war experimental program -- Toward an "early and obvious demonstration" -- Geographies of authority: Livermore, Cape Thompson and Area 10 -- Nuclear craters -- Pragmatic engineering worlds: feasibility and trust, off-site -- Epitaph: technocracy, geography, and the rights to knowledge.
0813536669 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813536668 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2005002579
Project Plowshare (U.S.)
Nuclear excavation.
TA748 / .K57 2005
Proving grounds : project plowshare and the unrealized dream of nuclear earthmoving / Scott Kirsch. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2005. - xi, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-243) and index.
Geographical engineering -- Origins of a cold war experimental program -- Toward an "early and obvious demonstration" -- Geographies of authority: Livermore, Cape Thompson and Area 10 -- Nuclear craters -- Pragmatic engineering worlds: feasibility and trust, off-site -- Epitaph: technocracy, geography, and the rights to knowledge.
0813536669 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813536668 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2005002579
Project Plowshare (U.S.)
Nuclear excavation.
TA748 / .K57 2005