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Under the Cap of Invisibility - The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,096
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Under the Cap of Invisibility - The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle (Hardcover): Lucie Genay, Alex Hunt

Under the Cap of Invisibility - The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle (Hardcover)

Lucie Genay, Alex Hunt

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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. 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 through the voices of native and adoptive Panhandlers.

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Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2022
Authors: Lucie Genay • Alex Hunt
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-6422-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands
Books > History > History of other lands
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LSN: 0-8263-6422-5
Barcode: 9780826364227

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