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chapter Introduction: A Most Controversial Technology -- chapter 1 A Community of Scientists: Atomic Theory over the Centuries -- chapter 2 Government Mobilizes the Atom: War, Big Science, and the Manhattan Project -- chapter 3 Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Aftermath: From Total War to Cold War -- chapter 4 The Cold War and Atomic Diplomacy: Deterrence, Espionage, and the Superbomb -- chapter 5 Invincible to Vulnerable in the Age of Anxiety: Massive Retaliation, Fallout, and the Sputnik Crisis -- chapter 6 Too Cheap to Meter, Too Tempting to Ignore: Peaceful Uses of the Atom -- chapter 7 To the Brink in Berlin and Cuba: The Military-Industrial Complex and the Arms Race -- chapter 8 Nuclear Power versus The Environment: The Bandwagon Market and the Energy Crisis -- chapter 9 The Post-TMI World, Chernobyl, and the Future of Nuclear Power -- chapter 10 Pax Atomica—or Pox Atomica—at the End of the Cold War -- chapter 11 Proliferation, Terrorism, and Climate Change: The Atom in the Twenty-First Century.

As an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual and corporate abuse. It has also become an object of commodification, with multinational corporations vying for water supply contracts in many countries. In Precious Commodity, Martin V. Melosi examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalienable right of citizens, and if government is responsible for its distribution as a public good. Melosi provides historical background on the construction, administration, and adaptability of water supply

Comment on Conley, Moors, Matsick, and Ziegler (2012). Grounded in prior research, a framework is proposed that builds upon the authors' findings and outlines a perspective to organize future research directions. In particular, the violation of committed relationship ideology is suggested to help explain, in part, negative perceptions of consensual nonmonogamous (CNM) relationships, as well as less favorable views of singles, and other non‐normative relationships. This broader conceptual view of the authors' findings encourages both future research on CNM relationships as well as further understanding of related phenomena stemming from relationship ideology.

The emergence of the environmental justice movement in the 1980s has stimulated much debate on the extent to which race and class have been or should become central concerns of modern environmentalism. Leaders in the environmental justice movement have charged that mainstream environmental organizations and, in turn, environmental policy have demonstrated a greater concern for preserving wilderness and animal habitats than addressing health hazards of humans, especially those living in cities; have embraced a "Save the Earth" perspective at the expense of saving people's lives and protecting their homes and backyards. Some advocates of environmental justice have gone so far as to dissociate their movement from American environmentalism altogether, rather identifying with a broader social justice heritage as imbedded in civil rights activities of the 1950s and 1960s.

Incineration has too often been perceived as a potential disposal panacea rather than one of several disposal options that meet varying criteria. Rather than trying to explain its advantages and disadvantages vis-à-vis other methods, we should first attempt to determine under what circumstances incineration best serves what disposal needs. The historical trend lines from 1885—when incinerators first appeared—to the present suggest that, in practice, incineration has been most notably a niche technology. To measure its success or failure in terms of aggregate numbers in the total pool of disposal options is to insufficiently understand its function over time, as part of a more complex system of solid waste disposal affected by several variables, including economic, environmental, and regulatory externalities.