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People of the bomb : portraits of America's nuclear complex

E.L. Doctorow suggested that in the years since 1945 the nuclear bomb has come to compose the identity of the American people. Developing this theme, Hugh Gusterson shows how the military-industrial complex has transformed public culture & personal psychology in America, to create a nuclear people
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn., ©2004
xxvi, 312 pages ; 24 cm
9780816638598, 9780816638604, 0816638594, 0816638608
54528955
Encounters with the other
Becoming a weapons scientist
Nuclear weapons and the other in the western imagination
Militarism and the media
Short circuit : watching television with a nuclear weapons scientist
Hiroshima, the Gulf War, and the disappearing body
Ideological frames
Presenting the creation : Dean Acheson and NATO
Missing the end of the cold war in security studies
Cultures as strategic hamlets : an anthropologist reads Samuel Huntington
Nuclear testing
Nuclear weapons testing as scientific ritual
The virtual nuclear weapons laboratory in the new world order
Life around the barbed wire fence
The death of the authors of death : prestige and creativity among nuclear weapons scientists
How not to construct an incinerator
Postscript : tall tales and deceptive discourses : nuclear weapons in George W. Bush's America