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The nuclear borderlands : the Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico / Joseph Masco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masco, Joseph, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History.
- Manhattan Project (U.S.).
- Manhattan Project (U.S.)--Social aspects.
- Nuclear weapons--New Mexico--Testing.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear weapons industry--New Mexico--Los Alamos Region--Social aspects.
- Nuclear weapons industry.
- New Mexico.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- New edition / with a new preface by the author.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bomb"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface to the 2020 edition
- 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 Santa 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 28, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9780691194288
- 0691194289
- OCLC:
- 1136267168
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