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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