GGR254H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Underground Nuclear Weapons Testing, Cuban Missile Crisis, Rocky Flats Plant
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Cold war: how world gets divided up due to it, how the world is thought of geographically. Look at violent geography, abstract concept and think of them in a certain way: washington, moscow, korea, vietnam, afghanistan, cuban missile crisis, role of power in producing geographies, cold war spaces, free world east, communist west. Rigid separations: look at the american experience. And how it is has been different for different people. Who experiences gains and who experiences lost (marginalized people: structural violence, structure leading to violence. Power creates conditions in which some strive and others don"t. Radioactivity would destroy, with all of its effects, didn"t know to what extent though, no more than 10 days after nagasaki, doctors were over there finding out what happened, open air experiment, atomic bomb. Casualty commission to go see what happens to people, organized by the us army. Look at these places and think of who the violence occurs to.
