The atomic bomb and American society : new perspectives / edited by Rosemary B. Mariner and G. Kurt Piehler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mariner, Rosemary B.

Piehler, G. Kurt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb--United States--History--Congresses.

Atomic bomb.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Nuclear weapons.

Atomic bomb--Social aspects--United States--History--Congresses.

Cold War--Social aspects--United States--Congresses.

Cold War.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Popular culture.

War and society--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

War and society.

History.

Social aspects.

Atomic bomb--Social aspects.

Nuclear weapons--Government policy.

United States--Social conditions--1945---Congresses.

United States.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2009]

Contents:

Part I Context of American Culture and the Bomb

Sixty Years and Counting: Nuclear Themes in American Culture, 1945 to the Present / Paul S. Boyer 3

Part II Creating and Confronting the Bomb

To Run with the Swift: Vannevar Bush, James Conant, and the Race to the Bomb-How American Science Was Drafted into Wartime Service / Peter K. Parides 21

The Manhattan Project Revealed: Local Press Response to the Atomic Bomb Announcements, August-September 1945 / George E. Webb 43

Lost Almost and Caught between the Fences: The Women of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 and Later / Mary Anne Schofield 65

Over the Radio Yesterday I Heard the Starting of Another War: Women's Wartime Correspondence, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the End of World War II / Judy Barrett Litoff 89

Part III Containing and Coping with the Bomb

Selling the International Control of Atomic Energy: The Scientists' Movement, the Advertising Council, and the Problem of the Public / Megan Barnhart 103

Defending the American Way and Containing the Atom: Ideology and U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy since 1945 / Shane J. Maddock 121

Continuity of Government Measures for Civil Defense during the Cuban Missile Crisis / Tracy C. Davis 153

Mightier than Missiles: The Rhetoric of Civil Defense for Rural American Families, 1950-1970 / Jenny Barker Devine 185

Expecting the Unexpected: Nuclear Terrorism in 1950s Hollywood Films / Robert E. Hunter 211

Part IV Culture and the Bomb

Voices from the Deep: Life and Culture aboard U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarines during the Cold War / William David Freeman 241

Exploding the Strangelove Myth: Cold War Nuclear Weapons Work and the Testing Times of William Ogle / Todd A. Hanson 261

The Early Nuclear Age and Visions of Future War / David M. Walker 285

Oppenheimer and Rabi: American Cold War Physicists as Public Intellectuals / Michael A. Day 307

"Out in the Open": Popular Representations of Some American Nuclear Weapons in the Early Cold War / Christopher John Bright 329

Part V Commemorating the Bomb The Oak Ridge International Friendship Bell / Edward W. Lollis 345

The Challenges of Preserving America's Nuclear Weapons Complex / Jason Krupar 381.

Notes:

"First presented as papers at a public conference commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the detonation of the first bomb, held in Oak Ridge, Tennessee July 15-17, 2005, and sponsored by the University of Tennessee Press and the University of Tennessee's Center for the Study of War and Society and Department of History"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-425) and index.

ISBN:

9781572336483

157233648X

OCLC:

244177162