Description
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.Author: Joseph Masco
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 03/24/2020
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780691202174
ISBN10: 0691202176
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General
- Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects
About the Author
Joseph Masco is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Theater of Operations.