Organizing the "unknown subject": Los alamos, espionage, and the politics of biography

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-49

  Taylor, Bryan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biography; Cold War culture; Espionage; Intertextuality; Klaus Fuchs; Nuclear weapons; Post structuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038224271     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335630209384358     Document Type: Article

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