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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschurfungen / Risse / Knicke. Finalist, 2023 Turku Book Award. In 1972, the US Navy established a nuclear submarine base in the Archipelago of La Maddalena, Sardinia, prompting Italy to launch a radiation surveillance program to assess the base's environmental and health impacts. Davide Orsini conducts the first systematic study of nuclear expertise in Italy, examining the technopolitical disputes surrounding the safety and role of these submarines in the Mediterranean from the Cold War to the base's closure in 2008. The book highlights the conflicts among various stakeholders--local residents, US Navy personnel, Italian experts, and politicians--over whether nuclear submarines were imperceptible threats or essential instruments of freedom. Unlike visible inland nuclear power plants, submarines' mobility and invisibility fostered ambivalence about their nature, reinforcing the notion of nuclear exceptionalism. In Italy, they represented objects in constant motion, easily relocated at signs of danger. Orsini illustrates how these mobile hazards complicated expert assessments and public perceptions of risk, particularly in non-Anglo-Saxon contexts where distinct social power dynamics influenced the outcomes of technopolitical debates.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschurfungen / Risse / Knicke. Finalist, 2023 Turku Book Award. In 1972, the US Navy established a nuclear submarine base in the Archipelago of La Maddalena, off Sardinia's northeastern shore. Italy responded by launching a radiation surveillance program to assess the base's environmental and public health impact. Davide Orsini conducts the first systematic study of nuclear expertise in Italy, examining the technopolitical disputes surrounding the safety of US nuclear submarines in the Mediterranean from the Cold War to the base's closure in 2008. The book explores the conflicts among various stakeholders--local residents, US Navy personnel, local officials, Italian experts, and politicians--over whether submarines posed imperceptible threats akin to radiocontamination or served as efficient instruments of liberty. Unlike visible inland nuclear power plants, submarines' mobility and invisibility fostered ambivalence about their nature, reinforcing the notion of nuclear exceptionalism. In Italy, they represented objects in constant motion, easily relocated at the first sign of danger. Orsini illustrates how these mobile hazards complicated expert assessments and public perceptions of risk, particularly in non-Anglo-Saxon contexts where distinct social power dynamics influenced the outcomes of technopolitical debates.

Zustand: NEW.

Zustand: NEW.

Zustand: New. 2022. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 456 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Orsini demonstrates how mobile sources of hazard posed special challenges for both expert assessments and public understandings of risk.&Uumlber den AutorDavide Orsini is a science and technologies studies scholar studying.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Finalist, 2023 Turku Book Award.