- Title Pages
- Inside Technology Series
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic -
2 Who Invented Brazil? -
3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective -
4 Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia -
5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges -
6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History ofTechnology Scholarship on Latin America in SelectedEnglish-Language Journals -
7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina -
8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba -
9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery -
10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child’s XO Laptop in Paraguay -
11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America -
12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale PeruvianExpeditions -
13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina -
14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico -
15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile -
16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil -
17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts - Contributors
- Index
Peaceful Atoms in Mexico
Peaceful Atoms in Mexico
- Chapter:
- (p.287) 14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico
- Source:
- Beyond Imported Magic
- Author(s):
Gisela Mateos
Edna Suárez-Díaz
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Mateos and Suárez-Díaz use a transnational framework to study the history of Mexican nuclearity during the Cold War. As they show, the development of national nuclear capabilities required the international circulation of physicists, nuclear materials, standards, and practices. Yet the authors further argue that the history of the Mexican nuclear program cannot be understood outside the context of Mexican political history in the twentieth century, as Mexico’s dual goals of political independence and national scientific capability resulted in a nuclear program that was dedicated exclusively to peaceful applications—such as energy—and eschewed the building of bombs.
Keywords: Cold war, nuclear, physics, circulation, scientific development, transnational history, Mexico
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- Title Pages
- Inside Technology Series
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic -
2 Who Invented Brazil? -
3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective -
4 Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia -
5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges -
6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History ofTechnology Scholarship on Latin America in SelectedEnglish-Language Journals -
7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina -
8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba -
9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery -
10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child’s XO Laptop in Paraguay -
11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America -
12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale PeruvianExpeditions -
13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina -
14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico -
15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile -
16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil -
17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts - Contributors
- Index
