ABSTRACT
For decades, nuclear testing in America's southwest was shrouded in secrecy, with images gradually made public of mushroom clouds blooming over the desert. Now, another nuclear crisis looms over this region: the storage of tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste. Tainted Desert maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|120 pages
Mapping the Nuclear Landscape
part Two|170 pages
Power, Representation, and Cultural Politics at Yucca Mountain