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Forget Silicon Valley, Google buses, and loft living in San Francisco. As Patrick Vitale shows in his deeply researched and compellingly written book, post-war American high-tech begins in gritty Steel City, Pittsburgh. Its workers are not today's multi-ethnic, collarless class making social media but white men wearing pressed white shirts, living in suburban tract housing, making the Bomb. High-tech becomes something quite different, politically conservative, socially exclusive, rather sinister. -Trevor J. Barnes, University of British Columbia Nuclear Suburbs offers a new and important insight into the complex relationship between the Cold War, suburbanization, and post-industrial capitalism. Patrick Vitale expertly reveals how deeply enmeshed scientists' lives and work were in the economic and spatial restructuring of cities like Pittsburgh. It provides a powerful, important retort to anyone suggesting that science and knowledge workers are the solution to urban problems. -Lily Geismer, author of Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party

Even readers who don't share Vitale's political conclusions might be intrigued to learn about Pittsburgh's place in nuclear history, which is little recalled today. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Patrick Vitale is assistant professor of geography in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy, and Geography at Eastern Connecticut State University.

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