Journal of Peace Research: "A timely contribution to the on-going nuclear debate"

PRIO Book Notes: Schwab certainly manages to make her readers acutely aware of the relevance of the legacies of the Manhattan Project in the early twenty-first century.

​A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate

At a time when the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that ended the 1980s Euromissile crisis no longer exists and the world commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Gabriele Schwab's thought-provoking book makes a timely contribution to the on-going nuclear debate. Alluding in its title to the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Radioactive Ghosts explores this theme through a set of different 'nuclear subjectivities.'

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Story Date: 2022-01-03T13:45:00