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The theater of operations : national security affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Joseph Masco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masco, Joseph, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terrorism--United States--Prevention--History--20th century.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--United States--Prevention--History--21st century.
- National security--United States--History--20th century.
- National security.
- National security--United States--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Other Title:
- National security affect from the Cold War to the war on terror
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>The anthropologist Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's ""balance of terror."" He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. Global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations.</div>
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822358060
- 0822358069
- 9780822375999
- 0822375990
- OCLC:
- 1154659992
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