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Mellor, Robynne N.

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The Cold War Underground: An Environmental History of Uranium Mining in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union, 1945-1991.

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Title/Author:	The Cold War Underground: An Environmental History of Uranium Mining in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union, 1945-1991./
Author:	Mellor, Robynne N.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	488 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-07A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13423553
ISBN:	9780438764514

The Cold War Underground: An Environmental History of Uranium Mining in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union, 1945-1991.
Mellor, Robynne N.

The Cold War Underground: An Environmental History of Uranium Mining in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union, 1945-1991. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 488 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2018.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation uses transnational comparative analysis and environmental history to show how uranium influenced the Cold War nuclear arms race and shaped human bodies and landscapes in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union. Using documents from archives in the United States, Canada, and Russia, it shows how the history of uranium procurement is essential for understanding the history of nuclear diplomacy during the Cold War. Uranium was the foundation upon which each country built its nuclear strategy, and uranium's abundance and scarcity variously facilitated and constrained foreign relations linked to nuclear technology at several important junctures. Moreover, both mining and nuclear development are inherently international topics. US, Canadian, and Soviet uranium procurement programs reflected and affected each other due to the pressures and connections of the Cold War and the interrelationships of the uranium market. Diplomatic negotiations based on access to uranium were not just theoretical discussions, however. Due to their material base, nuclear diplomacy had very real physical impacts for people and landscapes. This study comparatively examines the environmental histories of three uranium-mining regions, one each in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union to show that uranium production changed humans and environments in similar ways. In Grants, New Mexico; Elliot Lake, Ontario; and Kransnokamensk, Transbaikal krai, miners became ill with lung cancer and communities were unable to contain the pollution coming from the process. These similarities were linked to the material characteristics of uranium, which migrated through the distinct environments of Grants, Elliot Lake, and Krasnokamensk in parallel ways. Moreover, a history of mining and labor shows that miners forged similar relationships with uranium through their work in all threes areas based on the way uranium mining simultaneously threatened immediate and physical danger while slowly and imperceptibly poisoning their bodies. There were also important differences among these mining regions. Each country approached similar problems based on divergent political systems, economic structures, scientific understandings, and ideologies. Local traditions influenced responses to regulation and pollution. Uranium mining in all three regions was located on or near indigenous lands, but indigenous responses and involvement were dissimilar. Disparate physical landscapes surrounding Grants, Elliot Lake, and Krasnokamensk interacted with civil society and surrounding communities in ways that either concealed or revealed the risks linked to uranium mining. Information about uranium production and its health and environmental effects was refracted through US, Canadian, and Soviet domestic bureaucracy, scientific establishments, and regulatory agencies in various ways. Despite these diverse approaches, the health impacts of uranium mining and how to prevent them are understood only partly and waste disposal continues to be largely deficient.

ISBN: 9780438764514Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.
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Cold War

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