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"Cut holes and sink 'em": chemical weapons disposal and cold war history as a history of risk
"Cut holes and sink 'em": die Entsorgung chemischer Waffen und die Geschichte des Kalten Kriegs als eine Geschichte des Risikos
Using the incident of the scuttling of the USS Le Baron Russell Briggs, loaded with roughly 22,000 tons of outdated chemical weapons in 1970, this contribution extrapolates how, why, and when in the United States chemical weapons that had been produced as the ultimate answer to the risk of nuclear war became reframed as a risk themselves. The analysis settles on how questions of knowing and not-kn…
Creator
- Müller, Simone
Subject
Type of item
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Creation date
- 2016
- 2016
Places
- Deutschland
- Germany
Provenance
- Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Source
- Historical Social Research, 41(1)
Identifier
- oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/46549
- 0172-6404
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/46549
- urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-46549-9
- https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.1.263-284
- http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/46549/17 - Mueller_Cut_Holes_and_Sink_em_END.pdf?sequence=1
- http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/3YBWYHZGWBGAJDTDMJIRUXGCO66RM6R3
Extent
- Seite(n): 263-284
Format
- application/pdf
Language
- eng
- eng
Year
- 2016
Providing country
- Germany
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-01-20T22:32:50.043Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-01-20T22:32:50.043Z