The nuclear weapons legacy
On the 50th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two new reports from the US DOE shed light on nuclear weapons production and its aftermath. This article summarizes and comments on the two reports: Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom: the Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production in the United States and What the Department of Energy is Doing About it; and Estimating the Cold War Mortgage: the 1995 Baseline Environmental Management Report.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 381315
- Journal Information:
- Environment, Journal Name: Environment Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 38; ISSN 0013-9157; ISSN ENVTAR
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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