Previously: Part 1: “The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico,” & Breaking Bad And The New Mexican Nuclear Uncanny Uncanny #3. Contested narratives At the end of the Cold War, a great deal of information was de-classified, and this gave rise to a strong anti-nuclear movement which was now armed with information about […]
The Manhattan Project And The Nuclear Uncanny, Part 1
Previously: Breaking Bad And The New Mexican Nuclear Uncanny Review of “The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico,” by Joseph Masco, Princeton University Press, 2006. A superficial understanding of the nuclear era is that it is a series of famous atrocities and disasters that have occurred since 1945. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were […]