Atoms, Nature, and Man
by Neal O. Hines
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hines, Neal O.
- Title
- Atoms, Nature, and Man: Man-made Radioactivity in the Environment
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan, Carol Spears and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Nuclear energy
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48038
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48038
- Release Date
- January 21, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ATOMS, NATURE, and MAN Man-made Radioactivity in the Environment
- 2.The Understanding the Atom Series
- 3.CONTENTS — ATOMS, NATURE, and MAN Man-made Radioactivity in the Environment
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.SOME PRELIMINARY IDEAS — The Single Environment — The Need to Understand — Operating Concepts
- 6.A VIEW IN PERSPECTIVE, 1946-1963 — The Bikini Tests of 1946 — Joint Task Force One — Scientific Interests — The Underwater Detonation — First Assessments — The Bikini Resurvey of 1947 — Studies at Nuclear Test Sites, 1948-1958 — Landmarks — Before the 1963 Test Ban Treaty
- 7.THE ATOM IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — Examining Environments — TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY RESEARCH — Biological Inventories — Measurements and Interpretations
- 8.ENVIRONMENTS—SINGULAR, YET PARTS OF A WHOLE — Aquatic Systems — Biological Uptake — ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH — The Oceans — Rivers, Lakes, and Estuaries — Land — Atmosphere
- 9.PROBLEMS AND PROJECTS — ANIMAL RESEARCH — Wasps and Radioactive Mud — WASP NEST RESEARCH — Survival of an Animal Population — Fallout and Populations — The Variety of Approaches
- 10.WHERE ARE WE NOW? — The First Twenty Years
- 11.SUGGESTED REFERENCES — Basic — Weapons Testing and Fallout — Biological Effects of Radiation — Radioactivity in the Environment
- 12.Footnotes
- 13.Transcriber’s Notes
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