Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America.

Kaufman's I Project Plowshare i is thoroughly researched and does a fine job of weaving together the scientific, political, environmental, and diplomatic strands of the Plowshare program. Kaufman argues that although presidents from Dwight Eisenhower through John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon were all favorably inclined toward Plowshare, other foreign and domestic policy considerations regularly outweighed the AEC's plans. Kaufman covers much of the same ground that Scott Kirsch does in his I Proving Grounds: Project Plowshare and the Unrealized Dream of Nuclear Earthmoving i (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), though Kirsch writes from the perspective of a historical geographer. [Extracted from the article]

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