The Nuclear Borderlands (2nd ed.)

An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bomb In The Nuclear Borderlands , Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project. Masco examines how diverse groups in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico understood and responded to the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post–Cold War period. He shows that the American focus on potential nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War obscured the broader effects of the nuc