The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico

The Nuclear Borderlands 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. Masco examines how diverse groups—weapons scientists at Los Alamos National ...