Nuclear reactions : documenting American encounters with nuclear energy / edited by James W. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feldman, James W., editor.

Series:

Weyerhaeuser environmental classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear energy--United States--History--Sources.

Nuclear energy.

Nuclear industry--United States--History--Sources.

Nuclear industry.

Nuclear power plants--United States--History--Sources.

Nuclear power plants.

Nuclear weapons--United States--History--Sources.

Nuclear weapons.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xix, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]

Summary:

Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in post-World War II America, characterized by widespread support: fur a diplomatic and military strategy based on nuclear weapons and a vision of economic: growth that welcomed unclear energy both for the generation of electricity and for other peaceful and industrial uses. Unease about the environmental consequences of nuclear energy and weapons development became apparent by the early 1960s and led to the first challenges to that consensus. The documents in this collection address issues such as the arms race, "mutually assured destruction," the emergence of ecosystems ecology and the environmental movement, nuclear protests, and climate change. They raise questions about how nuclear energy shaped-and continues to shape-the contours of postwar American Site. These questions provide a useful lens through which to understand the social, economic, and environmental tradeoffs embedded within American choices about the use and management of nuclear energy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 First Reactions 21

Leslie Groves, Report on the Trinity Test, 1945 23

Harry S. Truman, White House Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945 28

Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud, 1945 32

Joseph H. Willits, "Social Adjustments to Atomic Energy," 1946 34

Headline Comics, Atomic Man, 1946 39

Arthur H. Compton, "The Atomic Crusade and Its Social Implications," 1947 41

H. M. Parker, "Speculations on Long-Range Waste Disposal Hazards," 1948 45

General Advisory Committee Reports on Building the H-Bomb, 1949 49

Lewis L. Strauss to Harry S. Truman, 1949 54

Part 2 Building Consensus 57

"National Security Council Resolution 68," 1950 59

Federal Civil Defense Administration, This Is Civil Defense, 1951 65

Federal Civil Defense Administration, Women in Civil Defense, 1952 69

Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy," 1953 74

Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, "What does Atomic Energy really mean to you?" 1953 79

Lewis L. Strauss, "My Faith in the Atomic Future," 1955 81

Heinz Haber, The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom, 1956 86

Bureau of Public Roads, A Preliminary Report on Highway Needs for Civil Defense, 1956 93

Walter Reuther, Atoms for Peace: A Separate Opinion, 1956 96

Part 3 Challenging Consensus 101

Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, "The Russell-Einstein Manifesto," 1955 103

Roger Revelle and Milner B. Schaefer, "General Considerations Concerning the Ocean as a Receptacle for Artificially Radioactive Materials," 1957 107

Atomic Energy Commission, Atomic Tests in Nevada, 1957 111

National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, "We Are Facing a Danger Unlike Any Danger That Has Ever Existed," 1957 114

Atomic Energy Commission, Atoms for Peace U.S.A., 1958 118

Barry Commoner, "The Fallout Problem," 1958 123

Edward Teller, "The Plowshare Program," 1959 128

Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization, Fallout Maps, 1959 132

Herman Kahn and H. H. Mitchell, The Postattack Environment, 1961 134

Margaret Mead, "Are Shelters the Answer?" 1961 140

Women Strike for Peace Milk Campaign, 1961 144

Atomic Energy Commission, Annual Report, 1962 149

John F, Kennedy, "Commencement Address at American University," 1963 152

David E. Lilienthal, Change, Hope, and the Bomb, 1963 155

John F. Kennedy, "Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty," 1963 160

Part 4 Confronting Paradox 163

Glenn T. Seaborg, Environmental Effects of Producing Electric Power, 1969 165

Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association, "A Nuclear Energy Gamble," ca. 1969 171

Lenore Marshall, "The Nuclear Sword of Damocles," 1971 175

Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee, Inc., v. United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1971 179

William R. Gould, "The State of the Atomic Industry," 1974 183

Committee on the Present Danger, "Common Sense and the Common Danger," 1976 188

Ralph W. Deuster, "Rx for the 'Back' of the Cycle," 1976 192

Leonard Rifas, All-Atomic Comics, 1976 196

David N. Merrill, Nuclear Siting and Licensing Process, 1078 198

Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Madness, 1978 200

Abalone Alliance, "Declaration of Nuclear Resistance," 1978 204

Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, 1979 207

Gloria Gregerson, Radiation Exposure and Compensation, 1981 211

Part 5 Renewal 215

David E. Lilienthal, Atomic Energy: A New Start, 1980 217

Ronald Reagan, "Address to Members of the British Parliament," 1982 221

Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 225

Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth, 1982 230

Ronald Reagan, "Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security," 1983 234

Carl Sagan, "The Nuclear Winter," 1983 238

Office of Technology Assessment, Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty, 1984 246

Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future, Disarmament Begins at Home, ca. 1984 251

Bernard Lown, "A Prescription for Hope," 1985 255

Elizabeth Macias, High-Level Nuclear Waste Issues, 1987 259

Ronald Reagan, "Address to the 42nd Session of the United Nations," 1987 263

Editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "A New Era," 1991 267

Epilogue The Nuclear Present 271

David Albright, Kathryn Buehler, and Holly Higgins, "Bin Laden and the Bomb," 2002 273

Allison M. Macfarlane, "Yucca Mountain and High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal," 2006 277

Oregon Department of Energy, Hanford Cleanup: The First 20 Years, 2009 282

Mark Z. Jacobson, "Nuclear Power Is Too Risky," 2010 288

President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, Report to the Secretary of Energy, 2012 291

Nuclear Energy Institute, "Nuclear Energy: Powering America's Future," 2013 296

Ken Caldeira, Kerry Emanuel, James Hansen, and Tom Wigley, "To Those Influencing Environmental Policy but Opposed to Nuclear Power," 2013 300

Latuff Cartoons, Fukushima Cartoon, 2014 303

John Asafu-Adjaye et al., "An Ecomodernist Manifesto," 2015 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295999616

0295999616

9780295999623

0295999624

OCLC:

958585593

Publisher Number:

99969662002