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

People of the bomb : portraits of America's nuclear complex / Hugh Gusterson.

Author/creator	Gusterson, Hugh
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004.
Description	xxvi, 312 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects --United States. Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects. War--Moral and ethical aspects --United States. War--Moral and ethical aspects. Military scientists--United States. World politics--20th century.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-293) and index.
LCCN	2004003476
ISBN	0816638594 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN	0816638608 (pb : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	U264.3 .G87 2004	✔ Available	Place Hold