Johnson (humanities, Michigan Technological U.) argues that through repeated use of atomic technology and language we've developed a mindset. The cultivation of this mindset has been through a combination of romanticizing the atom and, he borrows from Martin Heidegger, calculative thinking. He considers romanticized radium dial painters, uranium speculating and extraction, the Bikini Islanders whose home was converted into a testing-site, the value of land to those who would drop bombs on it, radiological experiments, superfund sites, nuclear energy as green, and a lately added response to the meltdown of a nuclear facility at Fukushima in 2011. Some chapters include black-and-white photos of nuclear propaganda, maps and, natural phenomena. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)