New Mexico’s Faustian Bargain with Science: Balancing Pride, Greed and Fear

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  • Lucie Genay Université de Savoie, Chambéry, France

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https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.201

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This article is an account of the emotional heritage of the scientific revolution which dramatically transformed the state of New Mexico into a nuclear Eldorado. The local populations accepted what turned out to be a Faustian bargain in which they sacrificed more or less knowingly their land, traditions and environment for the economic benefits of a new industry based on the offspring of the world's first atomic laboratory in Los Alamos.

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Genay, Lucie. “New Mexico’s Faustian Bargain With Science: Balancing Pride, Greed and Fear”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, Apr. 2014, doi:10.5283/copas.201.

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