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

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The Nuclear Borderlands explores 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 Alam...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Masco, Joseph, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Manhattan Project (U.S.) > Social aspects.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) > History.
Cold War > national security.
nuclear weapons > nuclear testing > nuclear explosions > scientists > plutonium > historical presentation > Los Alamos > New Mexico > USA.
Kalla kriget.
Kärnvapen.
Manhattan-Projekt
Social aspects.
Nuclear weapons > Testing.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Armes nucleaires > Industrie > Aspect social.
Armes nucleaires > Nouveau-Mexique > Essais.
Nuclear weapons industry > Social aspects.
Nuclear weapons > New Mexico > Testing.
Förenta staterna > New Mexico > Los Alamos.
New Mexico
New Mexico.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The enlightened earth. The nuclear state of emergency ; Radioactive nation-building ; The nuclear uncanny ; "A multidimensional, nonlinear, complex system"
  • Part I: Everyday life in the plutonium economy. Nuclear technoaesthetics : the sensory politics of the bomb in Los Alamos ; Econationalisms : first nations in the plutonium economy ; Radioactive nation-building in northern New Mexico : a nuclear Maquiladora? ; Backtalking to the national fetish : the rise of antinuclear activism in Santa Fe
  • Part II: National insecurities. Lie detectors : on secrets and hypersecurity in Los Alamos ; Mutant ecologies : radioactive life in post cold war New Mexico
  • 8. Epilogue : The nuclear borderlands.

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