Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0056486

Zusammenfassung

This habilitation project explores the social and political consequences of the civil and military use of radioactivity through a historical comparison of the United States of America and the Soviet Union and its successor states. Radiation and in some places just the threat of radioactive contamination transformed nature - the ecology of landscape and resources along with the ecology of the human body - from something knowable, comprehensible, and roughly predictable to something halfknown, incomprehensible, and unpredictable. These changes to nature took place both in the West and in...