Proving Grounds
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Proving Grounds

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

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Proving Grounds

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

About this book

Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environmental impact that the U.S. military presence has had at home and abroad. The essays in this collection survey the environmental damage caused by weapons testing and military bases to local residents, animal populations, and landscapes, and they examine the military's efforts to close and repurpose bases—often as wildlife reserves. Together they present a complex and nuanced view that embraces the ironies, contradictions, and unintended consequences of U.S. militarism around the world. In complicating our understanding of the American military's worldwide presence, the essayists also reveal the rare cases when the military is actually ahead of the curve on environmental regulation compared to the private sector. The result is the most comprehensive examination to date of the U.S. military's environmental footprint—for better or worse—across the globe.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Bases, Places, and the Layered Landscapes of American Empire
  8. 1. Defending the Nation, Protecting the Land: Emergency Powers and the Militarization of American Public Lands
  9. 2. Weather, Otters, and Bombs: Policy Making, Environmental Science, and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1945–1958
  10. 3. Incident at Galisteo: The 1955 Teapot Series and the Mental Landscape of Contamination
  11. 4. “This Is Really Bad Stuff Buried Here”: Agent Orange, Johnston Atoll, and the Rise of Military Environmentalism
  12. 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
  13. 6. Addressing Environmental Risks and Mobilizing Democracy?: Policy on Public Participation in U.S. Military Superfund Sites
  14. 7. Reality Revealed: U.S. Military Bases, Environmental Impact, and Civil Society in South Korea
  15. 8. A Wildlife Insurgency: The Endangered Species Act, Citizen-Initiated Lawsuits, and the Department of Defense at the End of the Cold War
  16. 9. Restoration and Meaning on Former Military Lands in the United States
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Contributors
  19. Index