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People of the bomb : portraits of America's nuclear complex / Hugh Gusterson.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gusterson, Hugh.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects.
- War--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- War.
- War--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Military scientists--United States.
- Military scientists.
- World politics--20th century.
- World politics.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 312 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Encounters with the other
- Becoming a weapons scientist
- Nuclear weapons and the other in the western imagination
- Militarism and the media
- Short circuit : watching television with a nuclear weapons scientist
- Hiroshima, the Gulf War, and the disappearing body
- Ideological frames
- Presenting the creation : Dean Acheson and NATO
- Missing the end of the cold war in security studies
- Cultures as strategic hamlets : an anthropologist reads Samuel Huntington
- Nuclear testing
- Nuclear weapons testing as scientific ritual
- The virtual nuclear weapons laboratory in the new world order
- Life around the barbed wire fence
- The death of the authors of death : prestige and creativity among nuclear weapons scientists
- How not to construct an incinerator
- Postscript : tall tales and deceptive discourses : nuclear weapons in George W. Bush's America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0816638594
- 0816638608
- OCLC:
- 54528955
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