Joseph Masco: 2 books
The Nuclear Borderlands
The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
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,...
The Theater of Operations
National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after...