Screen LibrarySilencing the bomb : one scientist's quest to halt nuclear testing /
In December 2016, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic "Doomsday Clock" thirty seconds forward to two and a half minutes to midnight, the latest it has been set since 1952, the year of the first United States hydrogen bomb test. But a group of scientists-geologists, enginee...
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
In December 2016, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic "Doomsday Clock" thirty seconds forward to two and a half minutes to midnight, the latest it has been set since 1952, the year of the first United States hydrogen bomb test. But a group of scientists-geologists, engineers, and physicists-has been fighting to turn back the clock. Since the dawn of the Cold War, they have advocated a halt to nuclear testing, their work culminating in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which still awaits ratification from China, Iran, North Korea-and the United States. The backbone of the tr |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 284 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-267) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231182485 0231182481 |
| Index Number: | U264 |
| CLC: |
D815.2 D999.2 |
| Call Number: | D999.2/S983 |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Hurried Trip to Moscow in 1974 to Negotiate the Threshold Nuclear Test Ban Treaty -- 2. Development and Testing of Nuclear Weapons -- 3. From the Early Negotiations to Halt Nuclear Testing to the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 -- 4. Attempts to Hide Nuclear Tests: The Big-Hole Evasion Scheme -- 5. U.S. Overestimation of Sizes of Soviet Underground Explosions: 1961-1974 -- 6. New Methods to Identify Underground Tests: 1963-1973 -- 7. Congressional Hearings on a Comprehensive Test Ban -- 8. Peaceful Nuclear Explosions -- 9. Heated Controversies Over Yie |