Nuclear Legacies

Bryan C. Taylor is associate professor of communication at the University of Colorado-Boulder.Stephen P. Depoe is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati, where he also directs the Center for Health and Environmental Communication Research.William J. Kinsella is a faculty member in the Department of Communication and the interdisciplinary program in Science, Technology, and Society at North Carolina State University.Maribeth S. Metzler is associate professor and director of the public relations program at the University of Cincinnati.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Linking Nuclear Legacies and Communication StudiesPart 2 The Discourse of Officials and Stakeholders of Nuclear Weapons ProductionChapter 3 Convergence and Divergence in the Public Dialogue on Nuclear Weapons CleanupChapter 4 Becoming Hanford Downwinders: Producing Community and Challenging Discursive ContainmentChapter 5 Regional Communication and Sense of Place Surrounding the Waste Isolation Pilot PlantPart 6 Organizing the Past, Present, and Future of Nuclear Weapons ProductionChapter 7 Cold War Triumphant: The Rhetorical Uses of History, Memory, and Heritage Preservation within the Department of Energy's Nuclear Weapons ComplexChapter 8 TRUTH is Generated HERE: Knowledge Loss and the Production of Nuclear Confidence in the Post-Cold War EraChapter 9 (Forever) At Work in the Fields of the Bomb: Images of Long Term Stewardship in Post-Cold War Nuclear DiscoursePart 10 Critical ResponseChapter 11 Response: Nuclear Legacies and Opportunities for Politically and Ethically Engaged Communication Scholarship

The volume's emphasis on communicative processes, especially in institutional settings, is a valuable contribution to study of the post-cold war period.... Combining institutional and technical history with rhetoric, communication, and anthropology generates a fascinating mix that deserves the attention of historians of technology.