Browsing by Subject "Military-Industrial Complex"
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The Business of Atomic War: The Military-Industrial Complex and the American West
(2020)This dissertation examines nuclear weapons manufacturing in the American West from 1942 through the early 1990s. Specifically, it examines Hanford Engineer Works in Washington, Pantex in the Texas Panhandle, Rocky Flats ... -
In Search of the Emerald City: Life Next to a Kansas Superfund Site
(2021-05-14)This thesis is an ethnographic investigation of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant and the surrounding town of De Soto, Kansas. I argue that the ammunition plant has produced not only embodied impacts in the form of ... -
A Martial Environment: The Rocky Mountain Arsenal and Ecological Change, 1942-2010
(2016)This thesis examines the military-industrial complex and ecological change in the American West during and after the Cold War. By specifically examining one munitions factory—the Rocky Mountain Arsenal—this thesis demonstrates ...