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

The Nuclear Borderlands......Page 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 2
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 3
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 5
1 The Enlightened Earth......Page 8
THE NUCLEAR STATE OF EMERGENCY......Page 10
RADIOACTIVE\'NATlON·BUILDING......Page 17
THE NUCLEAR UNCANNY......Page 21
\"A MULTIDIMENSIONAL, NONLINEAR, COMPLEX SYSTEM\"......Page 25
Part I Everyday Life in the Plutonium Economy......Page 28
2 Nuclear Technoaesthetics: The Sensory Politics of the Bomb in Los Alamos......Page 29
THE BOMB\'S FUTURE......Page 31
ABOVE-GROUND TESTING (1945-1962): TACTILITY AND THE NUCLEAR SUBLIME......Page 35
UNDERGROUND TESTING (1963-1992): EMBRACING COMPLEXITY, FETISHIZING PRODUCTION......Page 42
SCIENCE-BASED STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP (1995-2010): VIRTUAL BOMBS AND PROSTHETIC SENSES......Page 47
OF BOMBS AND BODIES IN THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY......Page 56
3 Econationalisms:  First Nations in the Plutonium Economy......Page 57
ECOLOGIES OF PLACE......Page 58
THE NEW WORLD: 1942/1992......Page 64
MIRRORS AND APPROPRIATIONS: THE SECRET SOCIETIES OF THE PAJARITO PLATEAU......Page 67
EXPLOSIVE TESTING......Page 74
NUCLEAR NATIONS: THE SOVEREIGNTY OF NUCLEAR WASTE......Page 80
ECONATIONALISMS IN THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY......Page 86
4 Radioactive Nation-building in Northern New Mexico: A Nuclear Maquiladora?......Page 88
RADIOACTIVE DEATH TRUCKS......Page 89
ON INVASION AND ILLEGITIMACY......Page 97
LANL: A NUCLEAR MAQUILADORA?......Page 106
NUEVOMEXICANO FUTURES IN THE PLUTONIUM ECONOMY......Page 114
5 Backtalking to the National Fetish: The Rise of Antinuclear Activism in Santa Fe......Page 115
THE POST-COLD WAR MOMENT......Page 117
THE PSYCHIC TOXICITY OF PLUTONIUM......Page 122
ANTI-ANTINUCLEAR ACTIVISTS......Page 126
WHAT IS A \"NEW\" NUCLEAR WEAPON?......Page 130
LOS ALAMOS: GROUND ZERO OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT......Page 136
Part II National Insecurities......Page 138
 6 Lie Detectors: On Secrets and Hypersecurity in Los Alamos......Page 139
7 Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post-Cold War New Mexico......Page 140
OF MEN AND ANTS......Page 142
NUCLEAR TEST SUBJECTS......Page 147
THE WILDLIFE/SACRIFICE ZONE......Page 151
ENVIRONMENTAL SENTINELS, OR THE MILITARIZATION OF THE HONEY BEE......Page 154
THE SOCIAL LOGICS OF MUTATION......Page 158
8 Epilogue: The Nuclear Borderlands......Page 160
NOTES......Page 165
REFERENCES......Page 180