The threat at home: The toxic legacy of the US military

Book · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6808166

Shulman, S

With the cold war over, the nation is now confronting the tremendous environmental damage the military enterprise has wrought over the past several decades. This book discusses the conditions at Defense Department and Energy Department military sites. Also explored are the origins and magnitude of the contamination and the effects of contamination on populations living near the military sites.

• OSTI ID: 6808166
• Resource Relation: Other Information: From review by Emilia L. Govan in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol 49, No. 1 (January-February 1993)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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