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• Title: Bomb's Lethal Legacy
  Author: Coronet Film and Video
  Publication Date: 1990
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: TK1345.H36B66 1990 and TK1345.H36B66 1990 guide
  Subject: Environmental Issues
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation has grown from it s origins in the Manhattan project into the world's largest atomic facility. In 1986, after 40 years of secret operations in the name of national security, the public learned that Hanford had released radioactive iodine-131 into the air. More than 20,000 area schoolchildren were exposed, placing them at increased risk for thyroid disease and cancer. The plant has now been shut down and must clean up vast quantities of radioactive waste. Its story exposes the conflict between national security and public accountability.
  
  
• Title: Environmental Sciences Collection database
  Author: Cambridge Scientific
  Publication Date: 1981
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbsel.cgi?username=mck&access=mck341&cat=environment
  Subject: Environmental Issues
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Abstracts and citations from over 4000 scientific journals plus reports, conference proceedings, monographs, and government publications.
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• Title: Man on Earth: Game Theory
  Author: Pacifica Radio
  Publication Date: 1961
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 226
  Subject: Environmental Issues
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1960s
  Description: This series consists of twenty-five lectures by Dr. S.P.R. Charter concerning man's role in the world ecosystem. This series was broadcast on KPFA from August 31, 1960 to December 1961. Dr. Charter continues his attack on the Rand Corporation and other practitioners of the Game Theory for military policy and foreign affairs. The theory is explained and examples given. Singled out for criticism are atomic physicist Edward Teller with his suggestion that limited nuclear war is necessary to prevent a full scale outbreak, and Herman Kahn who has ignored the ecological results of such conflict like ocean and watershed contamination and the long-range effect on recuperative capacity of the soil. This program is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives. This tape is recorded on two sides.
  
  
• Title: Man on Earth: Saving the World
  Author: Pacifica Radio
  Publication Date: 1961
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 237
  Subject: Environmental Issues
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: 1960s
  Description: This series consists of twenty-five lectures by Dr. S.P.R. Charter concerning man's role in the world ecosystem. This series was broadcast on KPFA from August 31, 1960 to December 1961. The heat of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fused humanity into a dimly realized struggle for peace that all must recognize and join. Dr. Charter concludes by calling for world-wide cooperation to save the Earth, particularly from the threat of nuclear destruction, either by military act or civilian miscalculation. He documents the production of deadly Strontium 90 and other atomic wastes, criticizing those scientists who value "national security" more than the survival of mankind. This program is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives. This tape is recorded on two sides.
  
  
• Title: Seabed Nuclear Agreement
  Author: Richard M. Nixon/Encyclopedia Americana/CBS News Audio Resource Library
  Publication Date: 1971
  Format: Audio
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D411.V5 1971 Feb no.2 item 1
  Subject: Environmental Issues
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1970s
  Description: With: Johnson, Nicholas. The new consumerism.
  
  
• Title: Secret Agent
  Author: Green Mountain Post Films
  Publication Date: 1983
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: RA1242.T44S43
  Subject: Environmental Issues
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Looks at dioxin, the deadly contaminant of the defoliant code-named Agent Orange used during the Vietnam War. Focuses on the devastating effects of this chemical on American soldiers and the Vietnamese populace, and interviews impaired Vietnam veterans who feel they should be fully compensated.
  
  
• Title: Vietnam: After the Fire
  Author: Cinema Guild
  Publication Date: 1988
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: DS559.8.C5V54 1988 pt. 1 and pt. 2
  Subject: Environmental Issues
  GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Looks at the legacy left to the Vietnamese people after the devastation of the war. Shows the effects of bombings and defoliants on farmland and forests thirteen years after the war ended.