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The Nuclear Borderlands : The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico | New Edition / Joseph Masco.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (456 p.) : 75 b/w illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691202174
  • 9780691194288
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 623.4/51190973 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • U264.4.N32
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE 2020 EDITION -- REFERENCES -- NOTES -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The Enlightened Earth -- Part I. Everyday Life in the Plutonium Economy -- 2. Nuclear Technoaesthetics: The Sensory Politics of the Bomb in Los Alamos -- 3. Econationalisms: First Nations in the Plutonium Economy -- 4. Radioactive Nation-building in Northern New Mexico: A Nuclear Maquiladora? -- 5. Backtalking to the National Fetish: The Rise of Antinuclear Activism in Santa Fe -- Part II. National Insecurities -- 6. Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos -- 7. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico -- 8. Epilogue: The Nuclear Borderlands -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project. Masco examines how diverse groups in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico understood and responded to the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post-Cold War period. He shows that the American focus on potential nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War obscured the broader effects of the nuclear complex on society, and that the atomic bomb produced a new cognitive orientation toward daily life, reconfiguring concepts of time, nature, race, and citizenship. This updated edition includes a brand-new preface by the author discussing current developments in nuclear politics and the scientific impact of the nuclear age on the present epoch of a human-altered climate.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE 2020 EDITION -- REFERENCES -- NOTES -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The Enlightened Earth -- Part I. Everyday Life in the Plutonium Economy -- 2. Nuclear Technoaesthetics: The Sensory Politics of the Bomb in Los Alamos -- 3. Econationalisms: First Nations in the Plutonium Economy -- 4. Radioactive Nation-building in Northern New Mexico: A Nuclear Maquiladora? -- 5. Backtalking to the National Fetish: The Rise of Antinuclear Activism in Santa Fe -- Part II. National Insecurities -- 6. Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos -- 7. Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico -- 8. Epilogue: The Nuclear Borderlands -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project. Masco examines how diverse groups in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico understood and responded to the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post-Cold War period. He shows that the American focus on potential nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War obscured the broader effects of the nuclear complex on society, and that the atomic bomb produced a new cognitive orientation toward daily life, reconfiguring concepts of time, nature, race, and citizenship. This updated edition includes a brand-new preface by the author discussing current developments in nuclear politics and the scientific impact of the nuclear age on the present epoch of a human-altered climate.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)