Environmental Histories of the Cold War

Table of Contents

Introduction: the big picture John R. McNeill and Corinna R. Unger
Part I. Science and Planning:
1. War on nature as part of the Cold War: the strategic and ideological roots of environmental degradation in the USSR Paul Josephson
2. Creating Cold War climates: the laboratories of American globalism Matthew Farish
3. A global contamination zone: early Cold War planning for environmental warfare Jacob Darwin Hamblin
4. Environmental diplomacy in the Cold War: weather control, the United States, and India, 1966–7 Kristine Harper and Ronald E. Doel
5. Containing communism by impounding rivers: American strategic interests and the global spread of high dams in the early Cold War Richard Tucker
Part II. Geopolitics and the Environment:
6. Environmental impacts of nuclear testing in remote Oceania:
1946–96 Mark D. Merlin and Ricardo M. Gonzalez
7. A curtain of silence: Asia's fauna in the Cold War Greg Bankoff
8. Against protocol: ecocide, détente, and the question of chemical warfare in Vietnam, 1969–75 David Zierler
9. Environmental crisis and soft politics: détente and the global environment, 1968–75 Kai Hünemörder
Part III. Environmentalisms:
10. The new ecology of power: Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War era R. Samuel Deese
11. Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and the debate on risk knowledge in Cold War America, 1945–63 Toshihiro Higuchi
12. The evolution of environmental problems and environmental policy in China: interaction of internalization and externalization Bao Maohong
Part IV. Epilogue:
13. The end of the Cold War: a turning point in environmental history? Frank Uekoetter.

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