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Behind the fog : how the U.S. cold war radiological weapons program exposed innocent Americans, Lisa Martino-Taylor
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- Summary
- This is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. The book examines controversial military-sponsored studies and field trials using radioactive "simulants" that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or consent during the Cold War. Although Western biological and chemical weapons programs have been analyzed by a number of scholars, Behind the Fog is a strong departure from the rest in that the United States radiological weapons program has been generally unknown to the public. Martino-Taylor establishes through social linkages and coordinated efforts by a relatively small group of military scientists who advanced a four-pronged secret program of human-subject radiation studies that targeted unsuspecting Americans for Cold War military purposes. Officials enabled such projects to advance through the layering of secrecy, by embedding classified studies in other studies, and through outright deception. Agency and academic partnerships advanced, supported, and concealed the studies from the public at large who ultimately served as unwitting test subjects.0Martino-Taylor's comprehensive research illuminates a dark chapter of government secrecy, the military-industrial-academic complex, and large-scale organizational deviance in American history. In its critical approach, Behind the Fog effectively examines the mechanisms that allow large-scale elite deviance to take place in modern society
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- eng
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- Behind the fog : how the U.S. cold war radiological weapons program exposed innocent Americans
- Title
- Behind the fog
- Title remainder
- how the U.S. cold war radiological weapons program exposed innocent Americans
- Statement of responsibility
- Lisa Martino-Taylor
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. The book examines controversial military-sponsored studies and field trials using radioactive "simulants" that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or consent during the Cold War. Although Western biological and chemical weapons programs have been analyzed by a number of scholars, Behind the Fog is a strong departure from the rest in that the United States radiological weapons program has been generally unknown to the public. Martino-Taylor establishes through social linkages and coordinated efforts by a relatively small group of military scientists who advanced a four-pronged secret program of human-subject radiation studies that targeted unsuspecting Americans for Cold War military purposes. Officials enabled such projects to advance through the layering of secrecy, by embedding classified studies in other studies, and through outright deception. Agency and academic partnerships advanced, supported, and concealed the studies from the public at large who ultimately served as unwitting test subjects.0Martino-Taylor's comprehensive research illuminates a dark chapter of government secrecy, the military-industrial-academic complex, and large-scale organizational deviance in American history. In its critical approach, Behind the Fog effectively examines the mechanisms that allow large-scale elite deviance to take place in modern society
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- Martino-Taylor
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Cold War
- Chemical warfare
- Weapons
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- Behind the fog : how the U.S. cold war radiological weapons program exposed innocent Americans, Lisa Martino-Taylor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Extent
- xiii, 211 pages
- Isbn
- 9781138239678
- Label
- Behind the fog : how the U.S. cold war radiological weapons program exposed innocent Americans, Lisa Martino-Taylor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Extent
- xiii, 211 pages
- Isbn
- 9781138239678
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