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Author Chaloupka, William

Title Knowing Nukes : the Politics and Culture of the Atom
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (182 pages)
Contents Contents; Preface; Introduction: Nukes "?" Us; 1. Knowing Nukes; 2. No More Warriors; 3. Robotics (The Bomb's Body); 4. Star Wars and the Freeze; 5. Immodest Modesty; 6. Power/Cheekiness; 7. On Lastness: Nuclearism and Modernity; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary Countering critics who charge that postmodern positions on language, authority, and power cannot inform effective political responses, this compelling analysis employs these same methods to examine antinuclear politics. Star Wars (the movie and the antimi
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Subject Postmodernism.
Criticism -- Political aspects
Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects.
Criticism -- Political aspects
Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects
Postmodernism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816684335
0816684332