..., and within the framework of the science-government relationship in the United States during the fifties and early sixties, before the environmental movement fully developed. © 2015 by the Regents of the University of California 2015 ecology conservation atomic energy fallout Plowshare radiation...

...Rachel Rothschild The U.S. military first sponsored ecological research during World War II to monitor the release of radioactive effluent into waterways from plutonium production. The Atomic Energy Commission later expanded these investigations to include studies of radioactive fallout...