TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gusterson,Hugh
TI  - Nuclear rites: a weapons laboratory at the end of the Cold War 
SN  - 0520081471
AV  - U 264.4 G982n 1996
U1  - 306.27 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
KW  - Employees
KW  - Personnel
KW  - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Etats-Unis)
KW  - ram
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Research
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - California
KW  - Livermore
KW  - Antinuclear movement
KW  - Armes nucleaires
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Californie
KW  - Mouvement antinuclâeaire
KW  - Armas nucleares
KW  - Investigaciones
KW  - Aspectos sociales
KW  - Movimiento antinuclear
KW  - Kernwapens
KW  - gtt
KW  - Laboratoriumonderzoek
KW  - Armes nuclâeaires
KW  - âEtats-Unis
KW  - Mouvement antinucleaire
KW  - Energie nuclâeaire
KW  - Etats-Unis
KW  - Californie (âEtats-Unis)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-344) and index
N2  - Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile - Nuclear Rites takes the reader deep inside the top-secret culture of a nuclear weapons lab. Exploring the scientists' world of dark humor, ritualized secrecy, and disciplined emotions, anthropologist Gusterson uncovers the beliefs and values that animate their work. He discovers that many of the scientists are Christians, deeply convinced of the morality of their work. An unexpected number are also liberals who opposed the Vietnam War and the Reagan-Bush agenda. In a lively, wide-ranging account, Gusterson analyzes the ethics and politics of laboratory employees, the effects of security regulations on scientists' private lives, and the role of nuclear tests - beyond the obvious scientific one - as rituals of initiation and transcendence
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal051/96007234.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal041/96007234.html
ER  -