Exploring Histories of Risk and Knowledge
Discusses history of risk as an emerging field and the ways it overlaps with the history of knowledge. Uses transnational perspectives on fire-fighting technologies as an example.
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Spinning the Risk: ‘The Effects of Nuclear Weapons’ Handbook
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons was by far the most popular handbook of nuclear defense during the Cold War. Adapted from an original publication of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (1950),1 the handbook was...
