Land of nuclear enchantment : a New Mexican history of the nuclear weapons industry /

In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico's nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points-of-view of the local people, including Hispanics, Native Americans and Anglos. Genay focuses on personal experiences in relati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Genay, Lucie, 1987- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Nuclear weapons industry > New Mexico > History. Nuclear weapons industry > Social aspects > New Mexico. Nuclear weapons industry > Environmental aspects > New Mexico.

Table of Contents:

Ground zero
Land of cultural and economic survival
The skeleton of a domestic nuclear empire
The manifest destiny of atomic scientists
The atomic sun shines over the desert
The nuclear golden goose
A federal sponsor
Cloaked in secrecy
Dangerous practices, toxic legacies
The sociocultural impacts of a scientific conquest
Land, lawsuits, and waste
Memory.