The Theater of Operations : National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror /

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How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's 'balance of terror.' He shows how, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Masco, Joseph, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sicherheitspolitik
Terrorism > Prevention.
National security.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
National security > United States > History > 21st century.
National security > United States > History > 20th century.
Terrorism > United States > Prevention > History > 21st century.
Terrorism > United States > Prevention > History > 20th century.
United States.
USA
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the "new" normal
  • "Survival is your business" : engineering ruins and affect in nuclear America
  • Bad weather : on planetary crisis
  • Sensitive but unclassified : secrecy and the counterterror state
  • Biosecurity noir : weapons of mass destruction in a world without borders
  • Living counterterror.

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