ABSTRACT
Reflecting on how the Fukushima disaster has been trivialised like other major global nuclear “events” inaugurated by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this introduction presents nuclear technology as a world-making technology par excellence, a technology that has shaped the world we live in and created a specific global order. Following a brief definition of the notion of “nuclear order” as encompassing material, institutional and symbolic components, it introduces the four interconnected themes articulating the overall organisation of this collective and multidisciplinary volume: violence and survival, control and containment, normalising through denial and presumptions, and timescaping through memories and futures.
