Living in a Nuclear World : From Fukushima to Hiroshima (Hardcover)

Introduction: Shaping the Nuclear Order Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia and Kyoko Sato Section 1: Violence and Order 1. What the Bomb Has Done: Victim Relief, Knowledge, and Politics Kyoko Sato 2. Optics of Exposure Joseph Masco 3. Constructing World Order: Mobilizing Tropes of Gender, Pathology and Race to Frame US Non-Proliferation Policy John Krige 4. The Nuclear Charter: International Law, Military Technology, and the Making of Strategic Trusteeship, 1942?1947 Mary X. Mitchell Section 2: Pacifying Through Control and Containment 5. Sharing the "Safe" Atom?: The International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Regulation Through Standardization Angela N. H. Creager and Maria Rentetzi 6. From Military Surveillance to Citizen Counter-Expertise: Radioactivity Monitoring in a Nuclear World Nestor Herran 7. Making the Accident Hypothetical: How Can One Deal with the Potential Nuclear Disaster? Mael Goumri 8. Governing the Nuclear Waste Problem: Nature and Technology Tania Navarro Rodriguez Section 3: Normalizing Through Denial and Trivialization 9. Trivializing Life in Long-Term Contaminated Areas. The Nuclear Political Laboratory Soraya Boudia 10. Continuing Nuclear Tests and Ending Fish Inspections: Politics, Science, and the Lucky Dragon Incident in 1954 Hiroko Takahashi 11. The Dystopic Pieta: Chernobyl Survivors and Neo-Liberalism’s Lasting Judgments Kate Brown 12. Unfolding Time at Fukushima Harry Bernas Section 4: Timescaping Through Memory and Future Visions 13. Framing a Nuclear Order of Time Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent 14. Nuclear Dreams and Capitalist Visions: The Peaceful Atom in Hiroshima Ran Zwigenberg 15. Slow Disaster and the Challenge of Nuclear Memory Scott Gabriel Knowles