Nuclear Borderlands The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico

Name: Nuclear Borderlands The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
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ISBN: 9780691120775

ISBN-10: 0691120773

ISBN-13: 9780691120775

Edition: 2006

Authors: Joseph Masco

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The Nuclear Borderlandsexplores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project--the atomic bomb. Joseph Masco offers the first anthropological study of the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project for the people that live in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb, and the majority of weapons in the current U.S. nuclear arsenal, were designed. Masco examines how diverse groups--weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, neighboring Pueblo Indian Nations and Nuevomexicano communities, and antinuclear activists--have engaged the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post-Cold War period, mobilizing to debate and…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



The Enlightened Earth


The Nuclear State of Emergency


Radioactive Nation-building


The Nuclear Uncanny


""A Multidimensional, Nonlinear, Complex System""



Everyday Life in the Plutonium Economy



Nuclear Technoaesthetics: The Sensory Politics of the Bomb In Los Alamos


The Bomb's Future


Above-ground Testing (1945-1962): Tactility and the Nuclear Sublime


Underground Testing (1963-1992): Embracing Complexity, Fetish