TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Securityscapes
Part I. Encounters with the Other
1. Becoming a Weapons Scientist
2. Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination
Part II. Militarism and the Media
3. Short Circuit: Watching Television with a Nuclear Weapons Scientist
4. Hiroshima, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body
Part III. Ideological Frames
5. Presenting the Creation: Dean Acheson and NATO
6. Missing the End of the Cold War in Security Studies
7. Cultures as Strategic Hamlets: An Anthropologist Reads Samuel Huntington
Part IV. Nuclear Testing
8. Nuclear Weapons Testing as Scientific Ritual
9. The Virtual Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in the New World Order
Part V. Life around the Barbed Wire Fence
10. The Death of the Authors of Death: Prestige and Creativity among Nuclear Weapons Scientists
11. How Not to Construct an Incinerator
Postscript. Tall Tales and Deceptive Discourses: Nuclear Weapons in George W. Bush's America
Notes
Bibliography
Publication History
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Nuclear weapons Moral and ethical aspects United States, Nuclear weapons Moral and ethical aspects, War Moral and ethical aspects United States, War Moral and ethical aspects, Military scientists United States, World politics 20th century