Living in a Nuclear World

From Fukushima to Hiroshima

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia, Kyoko Sato, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia, Kyoko Sato

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000541564
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has shaped the world we live in, and how we have come to live with it. Since the first nuclear detonation (Trinity test) and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all in 1945, nuclear technology has profoundly affected world history and geopolitics, as well as our daily life and natural world. It has always been an instrument for national security, a marker of national sovereignty, a site of technological innovation and a promise of energy abundance. It has also introduced permanent pollution and the age of the Anthropocene. This volume presents a new perspective on nuclear history and politics by focusing on four interconnected themes–violence and survival; control and containment; normalizing through denial and presumptions; memories and futures–and exploring their relationships and consequences. It proposes an original reflection on nuclear technology from a long-term, comparative and transnational perspective. It brings together contributions from researchers from different disciplines (anthropology, history, STS) and countries (US, France, Japan) on a variety of local, national and transnational subjects. Finally, this book offers an important and valuable insight into other global and Anthropocene challenges such as climate change.

Index

A

• Acceptable 72, 96, 119, 149, 153, 155, 158, 161, 162, 191–92, 194, 204, 286
• Accident 1, 2, 5, 9–11, 27, 120, 122, 132–33, 136, 138–42, 148–62, 169, 173, 177, 185–87, 189, 191–96, 198, 204, 223–25, 230–32, 235, 242–44, 247–52, 255, 273–74, 294–95, 309, 311; design-basis 154, 156–57; hypothetical 9, 150, 153, 155, 159, 161–62; normal 11, 159, 161, 242–43, 248–49, 252; nuclear 1, 27, 122, 140–141, 150–51, 154–55, 158–59, 162, 185, 189, 191, 193–94, 196, 198, 204, 231–32, 235, 250, 255, 273–74, 294–95
• Accountability 1, 6, 24, 63, 152
• Ackerman, Thomas 272
• Advisory Committee for Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) 149, 151–53, 159
• Air Force 52, 54, 56–57, 95, 132–33, 135–36, 228, 263
• Albright, Madeleine 67
• American Physical Society (APS) 191
• Ancestral 88, 90, 102, 167
• Annexation 95–98, 101
• Anthropocene 3, 16, 60–61, 63, 242, 253, 255, 265, 299, 303
• Anti-Vietnam War movement 293–95
• Apollo Mission 6, 51
• As Low as Reasonably Achievable ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: shaping the nuclear order
• SECTION I: Violence and order
• SECTION II: Pacifying through control and containment
• SECTION III: Normalising through denial and trivialisation
• SECTION IV: Timescaping through memory and future visions
• Contributors
• Index