In this book Professor Kissinger examines the framework of our foreign policy, the stresses
to which that framework is being subjected, and the prospects for world order in an era of …

In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre
from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces …

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing
radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and …

The evidential role of matter—when media records trace evidence of violence—explored
through a series of cases drawn from Kosovo, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In this book …

American Science Fiction--in both literature and film--has played a key role in the portrayal
of the fears inherent in the Cold War. The end of this era heralds the need for a …

A political ecology of the nuclear age developed through a theorization of “mutation”
interrogates the contemporary terms of radioactive nature in New Mexico. As an analytic, the …

This history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of
Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. It addresses the …

Controlling the Atom is the first comprehensive study of the early history of nuclear
regulation. It focuses on the activities of the US Atomic Energy Commission (predecessor of …

On January 27, 1951, the first atomic weapon was detonated over a section of desert known
as Frenchman Flat in southern Nevada, providing dramatic evidence of the Nevada Test …

This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high
diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the …