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by Natasha Zaretsky


  Social reproduction, 174–77

  Society, 57–58, 84–85, 174–78, 219n1

  Solomon, Andrew, 201

  Somatic injury, 32, 35–36. See also Genetic injury

  Spanish-American War, 19

  Sterilization campaigns, 207n21

  Sternglass, Ernest, 44, 66–67

  Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), 147–48

  Strauss, Lewis, 31

  Stress, 109, 129–34

  Strontium-90, 16, 29–30, 32–33, 34, 212n63

  Sturtevant, A. H., 36

  Suffering body, 6–14, 98–99, 195–96

  Survival, 174–78

  Susquehanna Valley Alliance (SVA), 104

  Tamplin, Arthur, 44–45

  Taylor, Charles, 206n13

  Technological disasters, 59, 65, 71, 221n21

  Teller, Edward, 15

  Testament, 154–55, 175, 183

  Thalidomide, 128, 214n81

  This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Klein), 192–93

  Thornburgh, Richard, 4, 67, 71–72, 79–81, 86–89, 130

  Three Mile Island (TMI): abortion and, 84–85, 92–93, 97, 122, 230n152; animals and, 116–20, 127–28; antinuclear movement on, 61, 104–13; antiwar activists on, 64, 106–7; biological injury after, 93–94, 115–20, 117, 127–28; biotic nationalism and, 59, 85–89, 189–90; blame at, 103, 137, 140–43; body and, 58–59, 81–89; cancer and, 114, 120–22; cartoons relating to, 123–26, 124, 140; children and, 59, 67, 71–72, 77–78, 81–89, 87, 88, 105–6, 122; cleanup efforts after, 107; closing of, 198; community of fate and, 102–3, 126, 139, 140–43; competing assessments of, 89–100, 114; concerns and opposition against, 61–62, 64; confusion after accident on, 65–68; conservatism relating to, 59–60, 64, 102–3, 128–29, 140–41; conservative ecological politics and, 89–100, 109–10, 128–29; counties within ten miles of, 225n78; cultural history and, xv–xix; culture of dissociation and, 5–6, 17; demographics of, 62, 64, 220n15; description of accident at, 1–2, 60–68; ecological age and, 1–2, 59–60, 89–100; economics and, 57–58, 61–62, 64; evacuation, panic myth, and rehabilitation of state, 77–89; evacuation of, 67–68, 77–89, 227n108; fear at, 73, 77, 89–91, 129–40; fetal health and, 59, 92–100, 122, 128; fight to shut down, 101–40; five features of crisis, 57–60; GPU and, 102–4, 140–42; health studies and cataloguing injuries after, 114–23; as hostage crisis, 133–34; hydrogen bubble at, 60, 68; infant mortality and, 122; invisibility, biological citizenship, and, 72–77; lawsuits against, 105, 138–43; map of, 63; maternal body and, 59; media coverage of, 74–76, 135–37; Met-Ed and, 6, 24–26, 61, 65–71, 131, 140–42; mothers and, 59, 81–89, 92–100, 111; NRC and, 61, 67–68, 70–73, 78–79, 102–4, 108, 127, 138–42; partisanship and, 105; patriotic body politics and, 9–14, 93–99; physical injury and radiological threat for continuing operations, 113–29; PIRC, 104; plants and, 116–20, 127–28; political authority and, 5–6, 8, 11–12, 58–60, 68–72, 86–90, 103; political right and, 6–7, 12–13; political trust and, 7–8, 11–12, 58, 68–72, 89–93, 105–9, 140–43; politics and, 6–7, 57–59, 102–3, 105, 189–90; popular epidemiology and, 115–20, 127–29; pregnancy and, 67, 71–72, 77–78, 81–89, 92–94; protests at, 7, 12–13, 101, 103–13, 131, 135–37, 136; pro-TMI activists, 135; PSR and, 155; public health and, 102–3, 108–9, 113–29; public relations campaign for, 60–64; radiation from, 3–4, 60–61, 65–67, 71–72, 78–79, 90–96, 113–29; reluctant activists on, 103–13; reproductive futurity and, 4–5, 7–8, 59, 93–95, 105–6; reproductive health and, 122–23, 128; reproductive politics and, 10–12, 84–85, 189–90; social movements and, 11–12, 57–58, 84–85, 98; society relating to, 57–58, 84–85; trauma at, 129–40; unborn and, 81–89, 92–100; Unit One operations, 103–13; venting hazardous waste from, 108–9; wastewater from, 67, 107–8, 222n31; women and, 81–89, 87, 88, 92–100, 111

  Three Mile Island Action Alert (TMIA), 104, 105, 114, 129–31

  Thyroid, 5, 33, 35, 52, 74, 213n67

  TMI. See Three Mile Island

  TMIA. See Three Mile Island Action Alert

  Totalitarianism, 182

  Tottenberg, Nina, 76

  Toxic discourse, 102–3

  Toxicity, 107–9, 251n10

  Trauma: lawsuits and court cases on, 138–40; nuclear war and, 153–55; psychoanalysis of, 130–31; PTSD, 131, 133–34; radiation response syndrome, 133; stress and, 129–30; Thornburgh on, 130; at TMI, 129–40

  Truman, Harry, 211n45

  Trump, Donald, xviii

  Trunk, Anne, 126, 135

  Trust. See Political trust

  Ukraine, 186–88

  Unborn: atomic imaginary and, 166–69; in ecological age, 192–93; extinction and, 182–83; fetal health and, 93–97, 174; genetic injury to, 40–41; nuclear testing and, 40–43; nuclear war and, 182–83; radiation contamination and, 16–17, 38–43, 42; reproductive health and, 38–43; rights of, 39–40, 167–68; TMI and, 81–89, 92–100

  United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 188

  Unknown, 15, 77, 91–92

  Uranium, 21–22, 51

  Utopian nuclear energy, 19–23

  Venting, 108–9

  Vietnam War, 2, 10, 171–72; antinuclear movement and, 55–56, 106–7; body and, 8, 91, 98; political authority and, 5, 68–69

  Visibility crisis, 72–77

  Von Eschen, Penny, 22

  Vyner, Henry, 219n131

  Walborn, Carolyn, 99–100

  Wald, George, 91

  Walker, J. Samuel, 204n2, 222n33

  WAND. See Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament

  War. See Nuclear war; specific wars

  Waste disposal, 189, 252n15

  Wastewater, 67, 107–8, 222n31

  Watergate scandal, 69

  Water toxicity, 251n10

  Weapons testing, 15–17, 20–21, 29–34, 37–45, 151. See also Nuclear testing

  Westergaard, Mogens, 37

  Westinghouse Electric, 21

  Wheat, 29–30

  WHO. See World Health Organization

  Wilkey, Malcolm, 139

  Wilkie, Curtis, 69

  Williams, Patricia, 171

  Winpisinger, William, 85

  Women, xv; biotic nationalism and, 194–95; Cold War, children, and, 84; fear for, compared to men, 226n98; freeze movement and, 164–68, 165; nuclear energy and, 110–11; TMI and, 81–89, 87, 88, 92–100, 111. See also Abortion; Fetal health; Mothers; Pregnancy; Reproductive health

  Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), 164

  Women’s health movement, 54, 98–100, 194–95, 206n15

  Women’s rights: abortion and, 84–85, 96–99, 167–68; antinuclear movement and, 99–100; family and, 10–11; reproductive politics and, 8, 10–12, 84–85, 207n21

  Women’s Strike for Peace (1961), 39, 193, 214n84

  Woodward, Beverly, 170

  Woodward, Joanne, 164

  World Health Organization (WHO), 22

  World War II, 2, 17, 19–21, 127, 157

  Wounded patriotism, 113

  Wright, J. Shelly, 139

 

 

 


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