The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post?Cold War New Mexico | New Edition
Joseph Masco
ISBN 10: 0691202176 ISBN 13: 9780691202174
Published by Princeton University Press, 2020
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2020. 2nd edition. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780691202174
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An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bomb
In 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.
About the Author: Joseph Masco is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Theater of Operations.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan ...
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Edition: 2nd Edition