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Project Plowshare the peaceful use of nuclear explosives in Cold War America

Title: Project Plowshare [electronic resource] : the peaceful use of nuclear explosives in Cold War America / Scott Kaufman.
Author: Kaufman, Scott, 1969-
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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1 online resource (xiv, 295 p.) : ill., map.

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Project Plowshare (Online)

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Project Plowshare (Online)

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-286) and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction : promoting the peaceful atom -- A plan of biblical proportions -- Just drop us a card -- A program on hold -- From moratorium to test ban -- The complexities of canal construction -- Nuclear testing, nonproliferation, and Plowshare -- Making headway? -- Plowshare goes down under -- Dead as a doornail -- Conclusion : back from the dead?.

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