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.