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)

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Project Plowshare (U.S.)


Nuclear excavation.

TA748 / .K57 2005