Lucie Genay 
Under the Cap of Invisibility [EPUB ebook] 
The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle

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Pantex was built during World War II near the town of Amarillo, Texas. The site was converted early in the Cold War to assemble nuclear weapons and produce high explosives. For nearly fifty years Pantex has been the sole assembly and disassembly plant for nuclear weapons in the United States. Today, most of the activities of the plant consist of the manufacture of high explosive components and the dismantlement or life extension of weapons, including retrofitting aging warheads in the United States’s arsenal.
Unlike the much more famous nuclear-weapons-production sites at Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Rocky Flats, the Pantex plant has drawn little attention, hidden under a metaphoric “cap of invisibility.” Lucie Genay now lifts that invisibility cap to give the world its first in-depth look at Pantex and the people who have spent their lives as neighbors and employees of this secretive industry. The book investigates how Pantex has impacted local identity by molding elements of the past into the guaranty of its future and its concealment. It further examines the multiple facets of Pantexism—the reasons for embracing nuclear-weapons production as a solution to economic woes, the resulting dependence on this industry, and the unconditional support for the facility—through the voices of native and adoptive Panhandlers.

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Innehållsförteckning

Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Alex Hunt
Introduction. The Bomb Factory
Chapter One. The Bishop’s Call
Chapter Two. The Novelist’s Fascination
Chapter Three. The Filmmaker’s Circus
Chapter Four. The Patriots’ Pride
Chapter Five. The Peaceniks’ Moral Crusade
Chapter Six. The Boosters’ Dreams and Fears
Chapter Seven. The Farmers’ Fight
Chapter Eight. The Environmentalists’ Quest to Learn and Teach
Chapter Nine. The Nuclear Workers’ Silence
Conclusion. Growth, Bombs, and Water
Notes
Selected Bibliography

Om författaren

Lucie Genay is an associate professor of US civilization in the English and American Studies Department at the University of Limoges, France. She is also the author of Land of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry (UNM Press).

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 328 ● ISBN 9780826368133 ● Utgivare University of New Mexico Press ● Publicerad 2025 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 10012928 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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