Author: Philip Albert Leighton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerosols
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Stanford Fluorescent-particle Tracer Technique
Author: Philip Albert Leighton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerosols
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerosols
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Toxicologic Assessment of the Army's Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersion Tests
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309174783
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
During the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Army conducted atmospheric dispersion tests in many American cities using fluorescent particles of zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) to develop and verify meteorological models to estimate the dispersal of aerosols. Upon learning of the tests, many citizens and some public health officials in the affected cities raised concerns about the health consequences of the tests. This book assesses the public health effects of the Army's tests, including the toxicity of ZnCdS, the toxicity of surrogate cadmium compounds, the environmental fate of ZnCdS, the extent of public exposures from the dispersion tests, and the risks of such exposures.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309174783
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
During the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Army conducted atmospheric dispersion tests in many American cities using fluorescent particles of zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) to develop and verify meteorological models to estimate the dispersal of aerosols. Upon learning of the tests, many citizens and some public health officials in the affected cities raised concerns about the health consequences of the tests. This book assesses the public health effects of the Army's tests, including the toxicity of ZnCdS, the toxicity of surrogate cadmium compounds, the environmental fate of ZnCdS, the extent of public exposures from the dispersion tests, and the risks of such exposures.
Behind the Fog
Author: Lisa Martino-Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315295199
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Behind the Fog 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 documents the coordinated efforts of a 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. Martino-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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315295199
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Behind the Fog 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 documents the coordinated efforts of a 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. Martino-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.
Handbooks
Author: Defense Documentation Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Secret Science
Author: Ulf Schmidt
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191062979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were many for whom the experience had been all but pleasant, sometimes harmful, and in isolated cases deadly. Secret Science traces, for the first time, the history of chemical and biological weapons research by the former Allied powers, particularly in Britain, the United States, and Canada. It charts the ethical trajectory and culture of military science, from its initial development in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in the First World War to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these types of weapons once and for all. It asks whether Allied and especially British warfare trials were ethical, safe, and justified within the prevailing conditions and values of the time. By doing so, it helps to explain the complex dynamics in top-secret Allied research establishments: the desire and ability of the chemical and biological warfare corps, largely comprised of military officials, scientists, and expert civil servants, to construct and identify a never-ending stream of national security threats which served as flexible justification strategies for the allocation of enormous resources to conducting experimental research with some of the most deadly agents known to man. Secret Science offers a nuanced, non-judgemental analysis of the contributions made by servicemen, scientists, and civil servants to military research in Britain and elsewhere, not as passive, helpless victims 'without voices', or as laboratory and desk perpetrators 'without a conscience', but as history's actors and agents of their own destiny. As such it also makes an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history and culture of memory.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191062979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were many for whom the experience had been all but pleasant, sometimes harmful, and in isolated cases deadly. Secret Science traces, for the first time, the history of chemical and biological weapons research by the former Allied powers, particularly in Britain, the United States, and Canada. It charts the ethical trajectory and culture of military science, from its initial development in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in the First World War to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these types of weapons once and for all. It asks whether Allied and especially British warfare trials were ethical, safe, and justified within the prevailing conditions and values of the time. By doing so, it helps to explain the complex dynamics in top-secret Allied research establishments: the desire and ability of the chemical and biological warfare corps, largely comprised of military officials, scientists, and expert civil servants, to construct and identify a never-ending stream of national security threats which served as flexible justification strategies for the allocation of enormous resources to conducting experimental research with some of the most deadly agents known to man. Secret Science offers a nuanced, non-judgemental analysis of the contributions made by servicemen, scientists, and civil servants to military research in Britain and elsewhere, not as passive, helpless victims 'without voices', or as laboratory and desk perpetrators 'without a conscience', but as history's actors and agents of their own destiny. As such it also makes an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history and culture of memory.
U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Note PNW.
Author: Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Portland, Or.)
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Particle Size Analysis: Proceedings of a Conference Organised by the Society for Analytical Chemistry and Held at Loughborough University of Technology 14-16 September 1966
Author:
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Category : Particle size determination
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A full-scale discussion and comparison of techniques for determining particle size.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Particle size determination
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A full-scale discussion and comparison of techniques for determining particle size.
Particle Size Analysis
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Particle size determination
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Particle size determination
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Collected Reprints - Great Lakes Research Division, the University of Michigan
Author: University of Michigan. Great Lakes Research Division
Publisher:
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Category : Great Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
U.S. Government Research Reports
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description