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_b.G87 2004
100 1 _aGusterson, Hugh.
245 1 0 _aPeople of the bomb :
_bportraits of America's nuclear complex /
_cHugh Gusterson.
260 _aMinneapolis, Minn. :
_bUniversity of Minnesota Press,
_cc2004.
300 _axxvi, 312 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-293) and index.
505 0 _aEncounters 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.
650 0 _aNuclear weapons
_xMoral and ethical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aNuclear weapons
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 _aWar
_xMoral and ethical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWar
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 _aMilitary scientists
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWorld politics
_y20th century.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0415/200400347 6.html
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_d97182