The Nuclear Borderlands, 2nd Edition
The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico | New Edition
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2020
Summary
An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America’s work on the atomic bombIn 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691202174 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691202176 |
| Author: | Joseph Masco |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 816g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Winner 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”
Joseph Masco
Joseph Masco is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Theater of Operations.
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