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

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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Main Author: Masco, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2020]
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Links:https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194288
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194288
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194288
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194288
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194288
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194288
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194288
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691194288
Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Feb 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (456 pages) 75 b/w illus
ISBN:9780691194288