Les Politiques de la Radioactivité: Tchernobyl et la mémoire nationale en Biélorussie Contemporaine, by Tatiana Kasperski, in HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology 14:2 (2020), 120-122.
“Learning to Think Long-Term,” review of Deep Time Reckoning, by Vincent Ialenti, in Science 370:6520 (November 27, 2020), 1043.
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea, by Antony Adler, in Earth Sciences History 39:2 (2020), 483-484.
Simone Turchetti, Greening the Alliance: The Diplomacy of NATO’s Science and Environmental Initiatives
Lucie Genay, Land of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry
“Nuclear Power and Promise,” review of Gregory B. Jaczko, Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator, published in Science 363:6424 (2019), 237.
“Anatomy of a Meltdown,” review of Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: A History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
William Rankin, After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
“A Toxic Timeline,” review of Richard S. Newman, Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present
Stephen Macekura, Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century
Sarah Bridger, Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
“Pick your Poison,” review of Frederick Rowe Davis, Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
Ryan H. Edgington, Range Wars: The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range
Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Scott Kaufman, Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America
Edwin A. Martini, Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty
“Promises, Promises,” review of Audra J. Wolfe, Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America
Gretchen Heefner, The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland
Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
Lawrence Badash, A Nuclear Winter’s Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s
Sara B. Pritchard, Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône
Jeremy Bernstein, Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element
Bruce J. Hunt, Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein
Peter Wadhams, The Great Ocean of Truth: Memories of the ‘Hudson-70’, the First Circumnavigation of the Americas
John Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe
Dian Olson Belanger, Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica’s Age of Science
Benjamin P. Greene, Eisenhower, Science Advice, and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1945-1963
Trevor Norton, Underwater to Get Out of the Rain: A Love Affair with the Sea
Sara Tjossem, The Journey to PICES: Scientific Cooperation in the North Pacific
Peter Goodchild, Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove; Gerard J DeGroot, The Bomb: A Life
Helen M. Rozwadowski, The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science under ICES
J. Samuel Walker, Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century