List of Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction: Welcome to Nuclear Gaia 1. Post-nuclear Studies and Infrastructures of Nuclear Regimes Media archives and grassroots practices Quantum entanglements Digital information, energy, and matter Sentient media and radiation Quantum media theory Media as geological sedimentation Infrastructures of violence Hyper-aesthetics of nuclearity 2. Nuclear Gaia: Oscillating Between Spacetimemattering and the Nuclear Colonial Drive Splitting the atom, or the intertwining of scientific experiments, historical time and military policies Masculinist nuclearism Nuclear criticism: the end of linear archives and the bomb as a medium Spacetimemattering and the memory of nuclear violence Nuclear Gaia as technologically mediated Earth design Colonial traces of Nuclear Gaia A lustful gaze at the exosphere and the moon as the 8th continent 3. From Biosphere to IT Gaia The Earth in the state of total peace Vernadsky's biosphere and its noo¨spheric transformation The Quest for Gaia , or Lovelock's tale about the superorganism, climate change and nuclear sadness Earth Science System and the self-reflective global subject The Earth as we knew it no longer exists 4. Nuclear Communication and Grassroots Archives of Catastrophes The advent of nuclear-proof communication Simulation as a tool of the real: between war games and catastrophes The postnuclear seismic order The Fukushima Daiichi disaster and proof of communication collapse Live archiving of nuclear regimes Top-down archive as a theater of simulating nuclear future An inaccessible archive Records from the zone of alienation Against nucleocratism Beyond the linear paradigm 5. Nuclear Violence and Planetary Harm: Testing the Endurance of Humans and the Environment Media labs of atomic tests New media of the nuclear renaissance Ahead of the Time: three visions of Russian nuclearism Atomic steppe: the Semipalatinsk Test Site Seismic studies of nuclear power Fallout archives: the Nevada Test Site The Downwinders' archive Toxic archipelago archives: the French Polynesia Test Site Atoll archives: the Bikini Test Site Nuclear savages Decolonizing nuclear regimes 6. Anthropocene: The First Geological Epoch of Nuclear Gaia Indices of the Anthropocene Metadata of the Anthropocene Nuclear Anthropocene: toxic minerals and landscapes Nuclear harm: conditions for half-life A Great Extractivism Deep time future of radioactive waste and cross-generational justice No Apocalypse, Not Now . References Index.