Nukespeak

About

Nukespeak is the title of a Sierra Club Book about language, nuclear weapons, and nuclear power. Nukespeak is the language of the nuclear mindset—the world view, or system of beliefs—of nuclear developers. The word mindset means what it implies, a mind that is already set. A mindset acts like a filter, sorting information and perceptions, allowing some to be processed and some to be ignored, consciously or unconsciously. Nukespeak encodes the beliefs and assumptions of the nuclear mindset; the language and the mindset continuously reinforce each other.