"The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico" by Joseph Masco

This book 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.

Author 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 "national security."
In a pathbreaking ethnographic analysis, Masco argues that the U.S. focus on potential nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War obscured the broader effects of the nuclear complex on American society.

The book provides new theoretical perspectives on the origin and logic of U.S. national security culture. The Nuclear Borderlands ultimately assesses the efforts of the nuclear security state to reinvent itself in a post-Cold War world, and in so doing exposes the nuclear logic supporting the twenty-first-century U.S. war on terrorism.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: THE ENLIGHTENED EARTH
The Nuclear State of Emergency
Radioactive Nation-building
The Nuclear Uncanny
"A Multidimensional, Nonlinear, Complex System"
PART I: EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY
Chapter 2: NUCLEAR TECHNOAESTHETICS: THE SENSORY POLITICS OF THE BOMB IN LOS ALAMOS
The Bomb's Future
Above-ground Testing (1945-1962): Tactility and the Nuclear Sublime
Underground Testing (1963-1992): Embracing Complexity, Fetishizing Production
Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship (1995-2010): Virtual Bombs and Prosthetic Senses
Of Bombs and Bodies in the Plutonium Economy
Chapter 3: ECONATIONALISMS: FIRST NATIONS IN THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY
Ecologies of Place
The New World: 1942/1992
Mirrors and Appropriations: The Secret Societies of the Pajarito Plateau
Explosive Testing
Nuclear Nations: The Sovereignty of Nuclear Waste
Econationalisms in the Plutonium Economy
Chapter 4: RADIOACTIVE NATION-BUILDING IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO: A NUCLEAR MAQUILADORA?
Radioactive Death Trucks
On Invasion and Illegitimacy
LANL: A Nuclear Maquiladora?
Nuevomexicano Futures in the Plutonium Economy
Chapter 5: BACKTALKING TO THE NATIONAL FETISH: THE RISE OF ANTINUCLEAR ACTIVISM IN SANTA FE
The Post-Cold War Moment
The Psychic Toxicity of Plutonium
Anti-antinuclear Activists
What Is a "New" Nuclear Weapon?
Los Alamos: Ground Zero of the Peace Movement
PART II: NATIONAL INSECURITIES
Chapter 6: LIE DETECTORS: ON SECRECTS AND HYPERSECURITY IN LOS ALAMOS
What Is a Nuclear Secret?
On Racial Profiling
Hypersecurity Measures
The "New Normal"
Chapter 7: MUTANT ECOLOGIES: RADIOACTIVE LIFE IN POST-COLD WAR NEW MEXICO
Of Men and Ants
Nuclear Test Subjects
The Wildlife/Sacrifice Zone
Environmental Sentinels, or the Militarization of the Honey Bee
The Social Logics of Mutation
8. EPILOGUE: THE NUCLEAR BORDERLANDS
Notes
References
Index

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