"Lec 3 - Nuclear Experiments"Environmental Politics and Law (EVST 255) To illustrate the linkages among national security, secrecy, and environmental quality, Professor Wargo describes the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear tests in the 1950s. The Atomic Energy Commission collected data on the spread of radionuclides from the nuclear tests, and discovered that the radionuclides were circulating around the world. This process of discovery raised issues regarding ways to manage risks to the population while both continuing the nuclear tests and keeping them secret for national security reasons. 00:00 - Chapter 1. National Security and the Threat to Democratic Participation 05:07 - Chapter 2. A Brief History of Secrecy: 1944 - 1963 22:03 - Chapter 3. The Dose-Response Relationship 29:45 - Chapter 4. Studying Fallout Data 36:52 - Chapter 5. The Narrative Advantage of Secret Holders Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2010.
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Lec 1 - Introduction to the Course - Introduction to the Course - Environmental Politics and Law
Lec 2 - Principles & Strategies in Environmental Law
Lec 4 - Nuclear Secrecy and Ecology
Lec 5 - Preparing for War: NEPA
Lec 6 - Marine Food-Chains: Mercury
Lec 8 -Chemically Dependent Agriculture
Lec 9 -Risk and Law: Pesticide Paradigm
Lec 10 - Safe Drinking Water: Science and Law
Lec 11 - Safety Claims and Free Speech: Preemption and Defamation
Lec 12 - Air Quality Law: Margins of Safety
Lec 12 -Vehicle Emissions and Public Transit
Lec 14-The Quiet Revolution in Plastics
Lec 16- Evolution of Tobacco Law
Lec 17 -Land Use and Conservation Law: The Adirondack History
Lec 18 -Property Rights and Public Lands Management
Lec 19 - Land Use Law and Property Rights
Lec 20 - Managing Coastal Resources in an Era of Climate Change
Lec 21 - Certification: Design and Green Architecture
Lec 22 -Past and Future of Nuclear Power