"Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S....

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1. Verfasser:	Edgington, Ryan H. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lincoln Univ. of Nebraska Press 2014
Schlagworte:	aLand usexEnvironmental aspectszNew MexicozWhite Sands Missile RangexHistory aLand usexPolitical aspectszNew MexicozWhite Sands Missile RangexHistory aSocial conflictzNew MexicozWhite Sands Missile RangexHistory aNuclear weaponsxTestingxEnvironmental aspectszNew MexicozWhite Sands Missile RangexHistory aLandscape protectionzNew MexicozWhite Sands Missile RangexHistory aEnvironmental policyzUnited StatesxHistory aMilitarismxEnvironmental aspectszWest (U.S.)xHistory aWhite Sands Missile Range (N.M.)xEnvironmental conditions aWhite Sands Missile Range (N.M.)xHistory aUnited StatesxMilitary policy
Zusammenfassung:	"Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile capabilities. In this environmental history of White Sands Missile Range, Ryan H. Edgington traces the uneasy relationships between the military, the federal government, local ranchers, environmentalists, state game and fish personnel, biologists and ecologists, state and federal political figures, hunters, and tourists after World War II--as they all struggled to define and productively use the militarized western landscape. Environmentalists, ranchers, tourists, and other groups joined together to transform the meaning and uses of this region, challenging the authority of the national security state to dictate the environmental and cultural value of a rural American landscape. As a result, White Sands became a locus of competing geographies informed not only by the far-reaching intellectual, economic, and environmental changes wrought by the Cold War but also by regional history, culture, and traditions"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	XIII, 268 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	9780803238442 9780803255357