How Nuclear Fallout Maps Helped Promote Planetary Thinking

In 1956, three meteorologists from the U.S. Weather Bureau—Lester Machta, Robert J. List, and Konrad Telegadas—published a pair of maps (below) in the influential journal Science. Those maps would go on to become icons in the history of both the Earth sciences and the modern environmental movement. The maps were initially part of an effort … Continue reading How Nuclear Fallout Maps Helped Promote Planetary Thinking