Living in a Nuclear World

Abstract

List of figures viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: shaping the nuclear order 1 BERNADETTE BENSAUDE-VINCENT, SORAYA BOUDIA AND KYOKO SATO SECTION I Violence and order 21 1 What the bomb has done: victim relief, knowledge and politics 23 KYOKO SATO 2 Optics of exposure 45 JOSEPH MASCO 3 Constructing world order: mobilising tropes of gender, pathology and race to frame US nonproliferation policy 66 JOHN KRIGE 4 The Nuclear Charter: international law, military technology, and the making of strategic trusteeship, 1942-1947 85 M. X. MITCHELL SECTION II Pacifying through control and containment 5 Sharing the "safe" atom?: the International Atomic Energy Agency and nuclear regulation through standardisation ANGELA N. H. CREAGER AND MARIA RENTETZI 6 From military surveillance to citizen counterexpertise: radioactivity monitoring in a nuclear world NESTOR HERRAN 7 Making the accident hypothetical: how can one deal with the potential nuclear disaster? MAËL GOUMRI 8 Governing the nuclear waste problem: nature and technology TANIA NAVARRO RODRÍGUEZ SECTION III Normalising through denial and trivialisation 9 Trivialising 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 neoliberalism's lasting judgments KATE BROWN 12 Unfolding time at Fukushima HARRY BERNAS vi Contents SECTION IV 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

Beyond Innovation and Use, or Why We Must Follow Technologies through Time

“…The cumulative phasing out of nuclear power plants, whether because of age or political disapproval, together with the nuclear landscapes created and left behind by the atomic age have stimulated a boom in nuclear history and a new field-nuclear cultural heritage studies (Ross 2023;Bensaude-Vincent et al 2022;Kasperski and Storm 2020;Brown 2013;Hecht 2012). The challenges of "nuclearity", as well as other long-term toxic legacies, have made researchers more aware of the temporal dimensions at stake and helped them differentiate various timescales.…”