Proving grounds : project plowshare and the unrealized dream of nuclear earthmoving / Scott Kirsch.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2005.Description: xi, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813536669 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780813536668 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TA748 .K57 2005
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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