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)


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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
Badash, Lawrence
Burke, Colin
Carlisle, Rodney P.
Edgington, Ryan H.
Greene, Benjamin Patrick
Hecht, Gabrielle
Journals
Technology and Culture
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Journal of Cold War Studies
Journal of Contemporary History
Space and Defense
Publishers
Stanford University Press
Harvard University
University of New Mexico
Yale University
Carocci Editore
Johns Hopkins University Press
Concepts
Science and politics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Cold War
Nuclear industry
Environmental sciences
People
Rabinowitch, Eugene
Rosenberg, Julius
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Soviet Union
New Mexico (U.S.)
Africa
Great Britain
France
Institutions
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
KGB
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
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