Proving Grounds : Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U. S. Bases.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Bases, Places, and the Layered Landscapes of American Empire / Edwin A. Martini -- 1. Defending the Nation, Protecting the Land: Emergency Powers and the Militarization of American Public Lands / Brandon C. Davis -- 2. Weather, Otters, and Bombs: Policy Making, Environmental Science, and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1945-1958 / Neil Oatsvall -- 3. Incident at Galisteo: The 1955 Teapot Series and the Mental Landscape of Contamination / Leisl Carr Childers -- 4. "This Is Really Bad Stuff Buried Here": Agent Orange, Johnston Atoll, and the Rise of Military Environmentalism / Edwin A. Martini -- 5. The War on Plants: Drug Control, Militarization, and the Rehabilitation of Herbicides in U.S. Foreign Policy from Operation Ranch Hand to Plan Colombia / Daniel Weimer -- 6. Addressing Environmental Risks and Mobilizing Democracy?: Policy on Public Participation in U.S. Military Superfund Sites / Jennifer Liss Ohayon -- 7. Reality Revealed: U.S. Military Bases, Environmental Impact, and Civil Society in South Korea / Heejin Han and Yooil Bae -- 8. A Wildlife Insurgency: The Endangered Species Act, Citizen-Initiated Lawsuits, and the Department of Defense at the End of the Cold War / Katherine M. Keirns -- 9. Restoration and Meaning on Former Military Lands in the United States / David G. Havlick -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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