Atomic Nightmares and Biological Citizens at Three Mile Island

Nationalism, Self-Determination, and Empire

“…These "reluctant activists," moreover, claimed that unlike leftists protesting the US empire or promoting Earth Day out of a supposed moral duty, they did so out of concern for their own survival. 17 This tendency also found expression in the burgeoning anti-nuclear movement of the late 1970s and 1980s. Despite the opposition to nuclear war by freeze activists, the movement remained committed to "a biotic, body-centered nationalism" imbued with a patriotism concerned only with the survival of America and its people.…”