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In this book Lucie Genay, who teaches U.S. civilization at the University of Limoges in France, undertakes an ambitiously panoramic historical overview of seventy years of nuclear institution building in New Mexico. As she points out, New Mexico acquired pretty much every part of the nuclear weapons life cycle: uranium mines and mills; two nuclear weapons laboratories; three sites where nuclear weapons were tested; the largest missile test range in the world; nuclear weapons storage facilities; three Air Force bases from which to launch nuclear attacks; and lots of nuclear waste sites. Her overarching frames for interpreting the construction of this complex are "nuclear colonialism" and "internal colonialism." She is referring here to the processes through which one of the poorest states in the United States, deeply reliant on agriculture and with a population that was 50 percent Hispano and Native American in 1940, was "colonized" by the military, Anglo scientists, and military-industrial corporations. Genay concedes that New Mexico's nuclear story has been told many times—but usually from the point of view of scientists and political leaders, while the perspectives of Pueblo Indians, displaced ranchers, Hispano homesteaders, and humble workers...