... of the policeman’s club or bullet, without losing sight of the bodies left in those weapons’ wake. If we take seriously the intermingling of Baldwin’s recollection of his “prolonged religious crisis” with his recollection of interactions with police officers describable only in terms of verbal and physical...

... an attempt to deny or destroy Palestinian political community, while simultaneously identifying Palestinians as political actors, specifically as bad actors. The aim is to undermine Palestinian political capacity by disrupting connection and organizing, while still deploying the weapon of categorizing...

...,” the essay theorizes a secrecy/threat matrix as a core project of the national security state. In doing so, it assesses the ideological linkages between “weapons of mass destruction” and the “secret” from the Cold War through the “war on terror.” The essay argues that the long-term effect of state secrecy...

... the movement to mold a shadowy force, “world opinion,” into a weapon. To illuminate these forces at work, this article follows the journeys of an unlikely cosmopolitan, Sidney W. Smyer. A white businessman from Birmingham, Alabama, Smyer’s transformation from Dixiecrat politician to reluctant integrationist...

... and consequences of U.S. nuclear weapons since 1940 , edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. Washington, D.C.:Brookings Institution Press. Dao, James. 2002 . Bush sees big rise in military budget for next 5 years. New York Times , 2 February. Defense: When money is no object. 2001 . Bulletin of the Atomic...

.... nuclear weapons since 1940 . Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. U.S. Department of Defense. 2002 . Nuclear posture review . www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/policy/dod/npr.html . The Billboard Campaign: The Los Alamos Study...

... may still be secret. Our commitment is not." The ad ends with the names of the companies involved in the project, listed again in larger and bolder print. At fmt glance this ad can read as an industry attempt to assure the public that the weapons manufacturers are really doing their job...

... in blue jeans, t-shirts, and baseball caps, holstered their weapons and quickly walked up to the cam- ouflaged colored paper human silhouettes. Some smiled proudly; others read their results in silence. George Cromwell, range instructor and a spe- cial agent with the Drug Enforcement...

...-123 Copyright© 2006 by 2010 Duke by University Duke University Press Press 405 Public Culture social injustice and enlist in the transcendent mission of saving the world from extinction by various threats — ­proliferation of nuclear weapons, global terrorism...

.../WorldOfChange/larsenb.php . Edwards Paul N . 2012 . “ Entangled Histories: Climate Science and Nuclear Weapons Research .” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 68 , no. 2 : 28 – 40 . Eisler William . 1995 . The Furthest Shore: Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain...

... experiment” (Dean 1998: 11). Ho Chi Minh City’s War Remnants Museum was once a pagoda. There are no Buddhas in the courtyard now. You walk on gravel. There are no imported moon- rocks here. You encounter the remains of U.S. missiles, obviously trash in con- trast to those nuclear-tipped weapons...

... that shops at Atomic Foods and cheers for a high school football team called the Bombers, whose helmets are decorated with mushroom clouds. This town that held a candlelight vigil when Hanford’s final reactor shut down, marking the end of Cold War weapons production. This town that now lives and works...

... his classmates turned him in for drawing pictures of weapons. The 11-year-old fifth grader was not charged with a crime in the Wednesday incident. His name is not being released to protect him, school officials said. “There were...

... occupation, surveillance is both inward- and outward-oriented, the eye acting as weapon and vice versa. Instead of the conclusive division between two nations across a boundary line, “the organiza- tion of the West Bank’s particular terrain has...

..., alongside the war machine, of an ocular (and later optical and electro-opti- cal) “watching machine” capable of providing commanders with an overview of military action, giving the eye the “function of a weapon.”4 A deterrence strategy based on the threat of massive nuclear strike and counter...

... the losses of sensitive military-industrial information began spreading as technologically complex weapons became a medium for warfare. 11 In the United States, for example, building weapons systems like airplanes and tanks during WWI required civilian expertise, civilian spaces, and most of all...

...). Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce. U.S. Department of Energy. 1988 . CERCLA Preliminary Assessment of DOE's Nevada Operations Office Nuclear Weapons Testing Areas , Vols. 1 and 2. Las Vegas: Department of Energy. U.S. Department of Energy. 1995a . Alternative Futures for the Department...

... 2014 ) underscores that the nation-state operationalizes its authority through deployments of weaponized force including air power to manage, control, and punish populations and to secure territory (see also Kaplan 2018 ). The modern military has always included policing functions, and modern police...

... the eye. Condensed in this lyric is the thrill and awe that 'TransFormers' inspire in the very young. TransFormers (variously manufactured in Japan and Taiwan) are robot toys which, through a series of mechanical manipula- tions, can be transformed into weapons, cassettes, insects, dinosaurs...

... of diversity and racial and gender justice, especially insofar as law is weaponized in race-and gender-evasive ways that do the work of maintaining structural racism and sexism. In On Being Included , Sara Ahmed (2012: 6) explains that, as her ethnographic research project on diversity work in higher...