For the Love of Bombs The Trail of Nuclear Suffering

The truism that history is written by its winners reflects the literature about how the bomb came about, with apologetic books most often written by U.S. scholars. The physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the nuke's 'father', is repeatedly centre stage, as in the case of the recent film about him. These are elitist stories that more often than not ignore the suffering and violence of the bomb to laypeople in general, and to marginalised groups in particular. Starting with the gruesome mining of uranium by First Nation people in northern Canada, and continuing with the racialist culture of uranium enrichment in the Atomic City of Oak Ridge, Peder Anker offers alternative perspectives. It's a story of how the bikini swimwear came to fetishise the nuclear bombardment of the Bikini Atoll with its celebration of 'sex bombs' and (an)atomic 'bombshells'. Our current global warming fears also harbour back to ordinary citizens wondering if atomic bombs would blow up the entire sky. If some of this was news to you, it might have to do with how the story of nuclear bombs has been told.

Info autore

Peder Anker is a professor at New York University and the author of six books on the history of ecological design and environmentalism.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peder Anker, Anker Peder
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2025
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Politica e sua amministrazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni
• EAN: 9781839993169
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-316-9
• Numero di pagine: 108
• Categorie: USA, Hiroshima, American History, Oppenheimer, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Atomic Bomb, Oak Ridge, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Science / Environmental Science, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear issues, Manhattan Project, Canadian History, Indigenous history, Pacific history, climate change history, Histories usually written by its winners, Tired of Robert Oppenheimer? In this history of atomic weaponry, he’s not even in a footnote, History of the Bikini, this book offers alternative perspectives on how nuclear bombs were made, Sex Bomb, A-bomb