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008			101207s2006 njua | 001 0 eng c
020			_a0691120765 (alk. paper)
020			_a978-0-691-12076-8 (alk. paper)
020			_a0-691-12077-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a978-0-691-12077-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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041			_aeng
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100	1		_aMasco, Joseph, _d1964-
245	1	4	_aThe nuclear borderlands _bthe Manhattan Project in post-Cold War New Mexico _cJoseph Masco
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. _bPrinceton University Press _cc2006
300			_axiii, 425 p. _bill.
520			_aThe Nuclear Borderlands explores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project--the atomic bomb. Joseph Masco offers the first anthropological study of the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project for the people that live in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb, and the majority of weapons in the current U.S. nuclear arsenal, were designed. Masco examines how diverse groups--weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, neighboring Pueblo Indian Nations and Nuevomexicano communities, and antinuclear activists--have engaged the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post-Cold War period, mobilizing to debate and redefine what constitutes "national security." In a pathbreaking ethnographic analysis, Masco argues that the U.S. focus on potential nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War obscured the broader effects of the nuclear complex on American society. The atomic bomb, he demonstrates, is not just the engine of American technoscientific modernity; it has produced a new cognitive orientation toward everyday life, provoking cross-cultural experiences of what Masco calls a "nuclear uncanny." Revealing how the bomb has reconfigured concepts of time, nature, race, and citizenship, the book provides new theoretical perspectives on the origin and logic of U.S. national security culture. The Nuclear Borderlands ultimately assesses the efforts of the nuclear security state to reinvent itself in a post-Cold War world, and in so doing exposes the nuclear logic supporting the twenty-first-century U.S. war on terrorism.--Publisher description.
650		0	_anuclear weapons _xscientists _xplutonium _vhistorical presentation _zLos Alamos _zNew Mexico _zUSA
650		0	_aCold War _xnational security _zUSA
651		7	_aUSA _xnuclear testing _xnuclear explosions
653			_aManhattan Project
653			_aLos Alamos National Laboratory
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