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The nuclear borderlands : the Manhattan Project in post-Cold War New Mexico / Joseph Masco.

Masco, Joseph, 1964- (författare)
ISBN 0691120765
Publicerad: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, c2006.
Engelska xiii, 425 p.
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  • 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 Sante 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.
  • 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 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 redefine what constitutes "national security." In a pathbreaking ethnographic analysis, Masco argues that the U.S. focus on potential nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War obscured the broader effects of the nuclear complex on American society. The atomic bomb, he demonstrates, is not just the engine of American technoscientific modernity; it has produced a new cognitive orientation toward everyday life, provoking cross-cultural experiences of what Masco calls a "nuclear uncanny." Revealing how the bomb has reconfigured concepts of time, nature, race, and citizenship, the book provides new theoretical perspectives on the origin and logic of U.S. national security culture. The Nuclear Borderlands ultimately assesses the efforts of the nuclear security state to reinvent itself in a post-Cold War world, and in so doing exposes the nuclear logic supporting the twenty-first-century U.S. war on terrorism.--Publisher description. 

Ämnesord

Kärnvapen  (sao)
Kalla kriget  (sao)
Nuclear weapons  -- New Mexico -- Testing. (LCSH)
Nuclear weapons industry  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)
Manhattan-Projekt.  (swd)
nuclear weapons  -- nuclear testing -- nuclear explosions -- scientists -- plutonium -- historical presentation -- Los Alamos -- New Mexico -- USA (sipri)
Cold War  -- national security (sipri)
Nuclear weapons  (LCSH)
Cold War  (LCSH)
Förenta staterna  -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos (sao)
New Mexico.  (swd)
Geschichte  (swd)

Institutionsnamn

Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Social aspects.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Manhattan Project
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Klassifikation

U264.4.N32 (LCC)
623.4/5119/0973 (DDC)
Sf.07 (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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