{"product_id":"the-nuclear-borderlands-the-manhattan-project-in-postcold-war-new-mexico-9780691120775","title":"The Nuclear Borderlands  The Manhattan Project in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner 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 ably demonstrates that nuclear weapons need not be detonated to have profound effects--effects that extend far beyond the well-studied realms of politics and international relations.\"--David Kaiser, American Scientist \"Masco seems to have taken to heart the tension between anthropology and science studies: on the one hand science studies too often fails in its understanding of what long-term intensive fieldwork can do; on the other anthropology too often fails to get directly into the heart of science and technology the way it always has language, spirituality, and economy. Masco's book is fusion (that impossible goal of our nuclear culture) of the best kind.\"--Christopher Kelty, Savage Minds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations vii  Acknowledgments xi      Chapter 1: THE ENLIGHTENED EARTH 1  The Nuclear State of Emergency 5  Radioactive Nation-building 18  The Nuclear Uncanny 27  \"A Multidimensional, Nonlinear, Complex System\" 35      PART I: EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY 41      Chapter 2: NUCLEAR TECHNOAESTHETICS: THE SENSORY POLITICS OF THE BOMB IN LOS ALAMOS 43  The Bomb's Future 46  Above-ground Testing (1945-1962): Tactility and the Nuclear Sublime 55  Underground Testing (1963-1992): Embracing Complexity, Fetishizing Production 68  Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship (1995-2010): Virtual Bombs and Prosthetic Senses 78  Of Bombs and Bodies in the Plutonium Economy 96      Chapter 3: ECONATIONALISMS: FIRST NATIONS IN THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY 99  Ecologies of Place 101  The New World: 1942\/1992 112  Mirrors and Appropriations: The Secret Societies of the Pajarito Plateau 119  Explosive Testing 132  Nuclear Nations: The Sovereignty of Nuclear Waste 144  Econationalisms in the Plutonium Economy 156      Chapter 4: RADIOACTIVE NATION-BUILDING IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO: A NUCLEAR MAQUILADORA? 160  Radioactive Death Trucks 162  On Invasion and Illegitimacy 179  LANL: A Nuclear Maquiladora? 197  Nuevomexicano Futures in the Plutonium Economy 213      Chapter 5: BACKTALKING TO THE NATIONAL FETISH: THE RISE OF ANTINUCLEAR ACTIVISM IN SANTA FE 215  The Post-Cold War Moment 219  The Psychic Toxicity of Plutonium 228  Anti-antinuclear Activists 237  What Is a \"New\" Nuclear Weapon? 244  Los Alamos: Ground Zero of the Peace Movement 256      PART II: NATIONAL INSECURITIES 261      Chapter 6: LIE DETECTORS: ON SECRECTS AND HYPERSECURITY IN LOS ALAMOS 263  What Is a Nuclear Secret? 265  On Racial Profiling 272  Hypersecurity Measures 278  The \"New Normal\" 283      Chapter 7: MUTANT ECOLOGIES: RADIOACTIVE LIFE IN POST-COLD WAR NEW MEXICO 289  Of Men and Ants 293  Nuclear Test Subjects 302  The Wildlife\/Sacrifice Zone 311  Environmental Sentinels, or the Militarization of the Honey Bee 316  The Social Logics of Mutation 324      Chapter 8: EPILOGUE: THE NUCLEAR BORDERLANDS 328      Notes 339  References 375  Index 413","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403735146839,"sku":"9780691120775","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691120775.jpg?v=1730484395","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nuclear-borderlands-the-manhattan-project-in-postcold-war-new-mexico-9780691120775","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}