GEV 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nellis Air Force Base, Depleted Uranium, Physical Geography
28 Nov 2016
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Impact of military operations on the physical landscape. Peacetime and wartime: scale is bigger and at some point other things come first. Envi warfare: attack environment for military purpose; husain destroyed desert for the next 5 generations by blowing up the environment. Focus on terrestrial landscape: not space or deep sea. Military activities: all have some level of environmental impact. Disturb landscape: 100 years ago, the somme france july 1916. British in lowlands, germans in highlands & bunkers (impregnable) British (cid:272)oal (cid:373)i(cid:374)ers dig hole, (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) to(cid:374)s of e(cid:454)plosi(cid:448)es (cid:1005)(cid:1004) a(cid:272)res of la(cid:374)d blown up; battle of somme: 16k british by lunch dead; craters still there. Increased level of disturbance, dien bien phu french recon in vietnam, 1954 devastated the jungle. 60 miles n of las vegas air force base: fly drones: nuc testing center late 40s and early 50s, craters result from underground testing atomic or hydrogen bombs. Some gigantic military bases out west; bigger in nm than ct.
