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The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
Joseph Masco
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Description for The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
Paperback. Explores the socio-cultural fallout of America's technoscientific project - the atomic bomb. This book examines how diverse groups - weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pueblo Indian Nations and Nuevomexicano communities, and antinuclear activists - have engaged the US nuclear weapons project in the post-Cold War period. Num Pages: 448 pages, 54 halftones. 21 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; JPS; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
The 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 ... Read more
The 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
616g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691120775
SKU
V9780691120775
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Ref
99-17
About Joseph Masco
Joseph Masco is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
Winner of the 2014 J.I. Staley Prize, School of Advanced Research Winner of the 2008 Rachel Carson Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science Co-Winner of the 2006 Robert K. Merton Prize, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the 2007 John G. Cawelti Award, American Culture Association Masco's important and impressive study ... Read more