Description: "This book employs archival research and theoretical insights on the organizational production of risk to examine the hazards of atmospheric atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site and radioactive fallout, and the effects on the communities lying downwind"--
Brief description: James C. Rice is Professor of Sociology at New Mexico State University.
Review Quotes: "Mastery of nature has a dark side--spiraling unintended and unwanted consequences. James C. Rice's history of radioactive fallout from atom bomb testing is a striking demonstration that it is almost easier to build weapons of mass destruction than to contain--or even recognize and admit--their grim penumbra. An object lesson for the Anthropocene."-- "Andrew Pickering, author of The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future"