Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Nukes "Я" Us -- 1. Knowing Nukes -- Survival -- Negation and Unspeakability -- A Destabilizing Standoff -- Discipline and Micro Control -- Language/Discipline/Politics -- 2. No More Warriors -- The Absent Warrior -- The Contrary Mission -- Demise of the Real -- Nuclearism/Humanism/Foucault -- Replacement and Therapy -- 3. Robotics (The Bomb's Body) -- The Absent Army -- Techno-populism -- The "Black Box" That Walks -- Robot Power -- Desire, Absence, and More Control -- The Darkest Code -- 4. Star Wars and the Freeze -- Reaganism -- Frozen -- Thawing and Other Instabilities -- C3PO, R2D2, and Darth -- All That Is Solid . . . -- 5. Immodest Modesty -- Lifestyle Strategies -- The Social -- Language and Political Strategy -- Irony and Politics -- 6. Power/Cheekiness -- Humanism -- Rationalism and "Politics with Attitude" -- The Ironic, the Abyss -- Politics and Open Secrets -- Sloterdijk's Cynicism -- 1989 -- 7. On Lastness: Nuclearism and Modernity -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.