Nuclear Borderlands (eBook)

The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico | New Edition

Joseph Masco (Autor)

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2020 | 2. Auflage
456 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19428-8 (ISBN)

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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 and responded to the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post-Cold War period. He shows that the American focus on potential nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War obscured the broader effects of the nuclear complex on society, and that the atomic bomb produced a new cognitive orientation toward daily life, reconfiguring concepts of time, nature, race, and citizenship. This updated edition includes a brand-new preface by the author discussing current developments in nuclear politics and the scientific impact of the nuclear age on the present epoch of a human-altered climate.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 75 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • americans • anti-nuclear movement • Archive • Atomic Age • Calculation • Cerro Grande Fire • Chernobyl disaster • Citizenship of the United States • Citizens (Spanish political party) • civil defense • Cold War • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty • containment • cross-cultural • Disarmament • ecosystem • Edward Teller • Employment • Engineering • Environmental Impact Assessment • Environmental issue • Environmental Law • Espionage • Everyday life • Health effect • Illustration • Infrastructure • Institution • International Relations • International Security • iodine-131 • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory • Los Alamos National Laboratory • mexicans • Militarism • Military science • Military Technology • Modernity • mushroom cloud • national security • Nation-Building • nation state • Nevada Test Site • northern New Mexico • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents • Nuclear Arms Race • Nuclear disarmament • Nuclear explosion • nuclear fallout • Nuclear Material • Nuclear Posture Review • Nuclear power • nuclear proliferation • nuclear reactor • Nuclear safety and security • nuclear secrets • Nuclear technology • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Nuclear weapon design • Nuclear weapons and the United States • Nuclear weapons testing • Operation Crossroads • Pajarito Plateau • Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty • Plutonium • Politics • pollution • Public sphere • Radioactive Contamination • radioactive waste • Radionuclide • Regime • Rio Grande Valley • Sandia National Laboratories • Scientist • Soviet Union • Stockpile stewardship • Strontium-90 • Surveillance • Technology • Technoscience • terrorism • The Other Hand • Thermonuclear weapon • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons • Trinity (nuclear test) • Uncertainty • United States • united states department of energy • University of California • uranium mining • war effort • Waste Isolation Pilot Plant • Weapon • weapon of mass destruction • weapon system • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19428-9 / 0691194289
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19428-8 / 9780691194288