{"product_id":"atomic-environments-nuclear-technologies-the-natural-world-and-policymaking-1945-1960-hardback-9780817321468","title":"Atomic Environments; Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960 (Hardback) 9780817321468","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAtomic Environments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNeil Shafer Oatsvall (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817321468\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 February 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 13 b\u0026amp;w figures\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“In this thoroughly researched account, Oatsvall challenges readers to rethink many of their assumptions about the relationship between nuclear weaponry and the natural environment. Attentive to detail and framed with appropriate nuance, \u003ci\u003eAtomic Environments\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates convincingly that environmental knowledge was a key driver of the decision-making process for policymakers in the early years of the nuclear age.”—Edwin Martini, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAt War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDemonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAtomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945–1960\u003c\/i\u003e, Neil S. Oatsvall examines how top officials in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations used environmental science to develop nuclear strategy at the beginning of the Cold War. While many people were involved in research and analysis during the period in question, it was at highest levels of executive decision-making where environmental science and nuclear science most clearly combined to shape the nation’s policies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oatsvall clearly demonstrates how the natural world and the scientific disciplines that study it became integral parts of nuclear science rather than adversarial fields of knowledge. But while nuclear technologies heavily depended on environmental science to develop, those same technologies frequently caused great harm to the natural world. Moreover, while some individuals expressed real anxieties about the damage wrought by nuclear technologies, policymakers as a class consistently made choices that privileged nuclear boosterism and secrecy, prioritizing institutional values over the lives and living systems that they were ostensibly charged to protect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By scrutinizing institutional policymaking practices and agendas at the birth of the nuclear age, a constant set of values becomes clear. Oatsvall reveals an emerging technocratic class that routinely valued knowledge about the environment to help create and maintain a nuclear arsenal, despite its existential threat to life on earth and the negative effects many nuclear technologies had on ecosystems and the American people alike. Although policymakers took their charge to protect and advance the welfare of the United States and its people seriously, \u003ci\u003eAtomic Environments\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how they often failed to do so because their allegiance to the US nuclear hierarchy blinded them to the real risks and dangers of the nuclear age.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570156761368,"sku":"9780817321468","price":34.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/atomic-environments-nuclear-technologies-the-natural-world-and-policymaking-1945-1960-hardback-9780817321468","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}