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

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

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...

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Masco, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2006
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.) :; 75 b/w illus.
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Table of 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

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