TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gusterson,Hugh
TI  - People of the bomb: portraits of America's nuclear complex 
SN  - 0816638594 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - U 264.3 .G87 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Minneapolis, Minn.
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - War
KW  - Military scientists
KW  - World politics
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-293) and index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0415/200400347 6.html
ER  -