The Tainted Desert
Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11100104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Penelope Canan (corresponding author), Valerie L Kuletz |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 242 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The tainted desert: Environmental ruin in the American West, Valerie Kuletz, 1998 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2654948 |
| OpenAlex | W2315449237 |
| Language | EN |
For decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now, another nuclear crisis looms over this region: the storage of tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste. Tainted Desert maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy
American west · Archaeology · Criminology · Desert (philosophy · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Risk Perception and Management
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