Introduction : The big picture / J.R. McNeill and Corinna R. Unger -- War on nature as part of the Cold War : the strategic and ideological roots of environmental degradation in the Soviet Union / Paul Josephson -- Creating Cold War climates : the laboratories of American globalism / Matthew Farish -- A global contamination zone : early Cold War planning for environmental warfare / Jacob Darwin Hamblin -- Environmental diplomacy in the Cold War : weather control, the United States, and India, 1966-1967 / Kristine C. Harper and Ronald E. Doel -- Containing communism by impounding rivers : American strategic interests and the global spread of high dams in the early Cold War / Richard P. Tucker -- Environmental impacts of nuclear testing in remote Oceania, 1946-1996 / Mark D. Merlin and Ricardo M. Gonzalez -- A curtain of silence : Asia's fauna in the Cold War / Greg Bankoff -- Against protocol : ecocide, d(c)?tente, and the question of chemical warfare in Vietnam, 1969-1975 / David Zierler -- Environmental crisis and soft politics : d(c)?tente and the global environment, 1968-1975 / Kai H(c)?nem(c)?rder -- The new ecology of power : Julian and Aldous Huxley in the Cold War era / R.S. Deese -- Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing and the debate on risk knowledge in Cold War America, 1945-1963 / Toshihiro Higuchi -- The evolution of environmental problems and environmental policy in China : the interaction of internal and external forces / Bao Maohong -- The end of the Cold War : a turning point in environmental history? / Frank Uekoetter