Legacies of the Manhattan Project : reflections on 75 years of a nuclear world / edited by Michael Mays.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mays, Michael, 1963- editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Hanford histories ; v. 2.

Hanford histories ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History.

Manhattan Project (U.S.).

Atomic bomb--United States--History.

Atomic bomb.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The Hanford History Project held the "Legacies of the Manhattan Project at 75 Years" conference in March 2017. Professionals from a broad array of backgrounds-working scientists, government employees, retired health physicists, downwinders, representatives from community groups, impassioned lay people, and scholars working in a host of different academic fields-attended and gave presentations. The diverse gathering, with its wide range of expertise, stimulated the remarkable exchange of ideas in this book"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Section I Truth is the First Casualty of War

1 Atomic Legacies in Censored Print: Newspapers and the Meaning of Nuclear War p. 9 / Hilary Dickerson

2 Borrowed Chronicles: William L. "Atomic Bill" Laurence and the Reports of a Hiroshima Survivor p. 29 / Susan E. Swanberg

Section II Necessity is the Mother of Invention

3 Casting Shadows, Capturing Images: The History and Legacy of Implosion Physics at Los Alamos p. 51 / Ellen D. McGehee

4 Herbert M. Parker, Health Physics, and Hanford p. 75 / Ronald L. Kathren

5 "The Atom Goes to College": The Teaching Reactors that Trained the Atomic Age p. 93 / David P.D. Manns

6 Political Scientists: The Atomic Scientists and the Emergence of a Politically Engaged Scientific Community p. 113 / Ian Graig

Section III Facts and Fictions

7 Pursuing the Cancellation of the Apocalypse: Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge and Rebecca Solnit's Savage Dreams p. 133 / Daisy Henwood

8 "We Can't Relocate the World": Activists, Doctors, and a Radiation-Exposed Identity p. 153 / Laura J. Harkewicz

9 Hanford Production Reactor Operations and Contamination in the Columbia River p. 177 / M. S. Gerber

Section IV Looking Back, Looking Forward

10 Atomicalia: Collecting and Exhibiting Manhattan Project Material Culture p. 211 / Mick Broderick

11 Future Directions in Scholarship and Interpretation: A Roundtable Discussion p. 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780874223750

087422375X

OCLC:

1127068634

Publisher Number:

99985017441