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Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima
Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima
Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima
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Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima

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***Winner of the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2020***

***Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2020***

Since the first atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, the history of nuclear warfare has been tangled with the spaces and places of scientific research and weapons testing, armament and disarmament, pacifism and proliferation. Nuclear geography gives us the tools to understand these events, and the extraordinary human cost of nuclear weapons.

Disarming Doomsday explores the secret history of nuclear weapons by studying the places they build and tear apart, from Los Alamos to Hiroshima. It looks at the legacy of nuclear imperialism from weapons testing on Christmas Island and across the South Pacific, as well as the lasting harm this has caused to indigenous communities and the soldiers that conducted the tests.

For the first time, these complex geographies are tied together. Disarming Doomsday takes us forward, describing how geographers and geotechnology continue to shape nuclear war, and, perhaps, help to prevent it.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPluto Press
Release dateMay 20, 2019
ISBN9781786804396
Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima
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Becky Alexis-Martin

Becky-Alexis Martin is a lecturer in Cultural and Political Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of Disarming Doomsday (Pluto, 2019).

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