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12/16/2020
Virtual Event: Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis 12/21 Historians in the News
POLITICAL FALLOUT: NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING AND THE MAKING OF A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
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The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is typically viewed as marking a first step toward nuclear arms control. But Toshihiro Higuchi argues that it was also one of the first international agreements that addressed a truly global, human-induced environmental problem. By tracing a worldwide struggle to determine the biological effects, social acceptability, and policy implications of radioactive fallout, Higuchi reexamines the Cold War in the c