Book ID: CBB000741824

The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (2006)

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Masco, Joseph (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xiii + 425 pp.; ill.; index; bibl.
Language: English

Description An “anthropological study of the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project for the people that live in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico,” including weapons scientists, Pueblo Indian Nations, Nuevomexicano communities, and antinuclear activists. (from the publisher)


Reviewed By

Review Westwick, Peter (2008) Review of "The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 656). unapi

Essay Review Brown, Paul (2009) Technoaesthetics and the Nuclear Uncanny. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 223-232). unapi

Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Armstrong, Melanie
Grise, Michelle Claire
Snyder, Timothy
Ciglioni, Laura
Richter, Jennifer
Zenzen, Joan M.
Concepts
Science and politics
Science and war; science and the military
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Cold War
Nuclear industry
Environmental sciences
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Soviet Union
New Mexico (U.S.)
Great Britain
Russia
Pakistan
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
KGB
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
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