Daily Archives: 08-12-24

Phallocentric/heteronormative assumptions get in the way of amateur attempts to reconstruct the first atomic bombs (Samuels, “Atomic John,” New Yorker, 15 Dec ’08): The source of the error, Coster-Mullen recognized, was an assumption that every (male) researcher who studied the subject had made about the relation between projectile and target. These scholars had apparently been [...]