Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert
Reno: Black Rock Institute Press, 2010. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards with white lettering; xv, 236 pp; illustrated in bw and color. VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Item #187305
ISBN: 9780984101429
An environmentally charged survey of nuclear culture in the "Silver State," Bombast considers the manipulated language and imagery doled out by the atomic industry to make the unsafe appear safe, and the unthinkable, thinkable.--Publisher's description. Contents: One. Proving Grounds -- Two. Vast Hostile Zones -- Three. Project Nutmeg -- Four. Caliban in Cowboy Boots -- Five. The Little Green Book -- Six. The Name of the Bomb -- Seven. A Rose by any Other Name -- Eight. Of Mice and Men -- Nine. Atomic Pop / Peter Goin -- Ten. Off Site Testing -- Eleven. Orwell in hot Creek Valley -- Twelve. Nuclear Augean Stables -- Thirteen. The Rhetoric of Prediction -- Fourteen. Atomic Culture in the Silver State.History.
OCLC: 668119489
Price: $35.00