Based on fieldwork at the lawrence livermore national laboratory the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the mx missile nuclear rites takes the reader deep inside the top secret culture of a nuclear weapons lab exploring the scientists world of dark humor ritualized secrecy and disciplined emotions anthropologist hugh gusterson uncovers the beliefs and values that animate their work. Based on fieldwork at the lawrence livermore national laboratory the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the mx missile nuclear rites takes the reader deep inside the top secret culture of a nuclear weapons lab exploring the scientists world of dark humor ritualized secrecy and disciplined emotions anthropologist hugh gusterson uncovers the beliefs and values . Nuclear rites a weapons laboratory at the end of the cold war by hugh gusterson 1998 02 10 hugh gusterson 9780520213739 books amazonca. Nuclear rites a weapons laboratory at the end of the cold war based on fieldwork at the lawrence livermore national laboratory the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the mx missile nuclear rites takes the reader deep inside the top secret culture of a nuclear weapons lab. Nuclear rites weapons laboratory at the end of the cold war hugh gusterson berkeley university of california press 1998370 pp