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