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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