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Atomic Americans : citizens in a nuclear state / Sarah E. Robey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robey, Sarah E., 1986- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
- Cold War.
- Nuclear weapons--Social aspects--United States.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear weapons--United States--Public opinion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Examines how American civic life and ideas about citizenship changed in response to the threat of nuclear attack in the early years of the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Si vis pacem, para bellum [If you want peace,
- prepare for war]
- Stop "play[ing] pattycake with the whole issue": citizen calls for civil defense
- "Between the devil and the deep": civil defense and the early Cold War political landscape
- The man in the white lab coat: the uses of scientists and scientific authority
- The fallout from fallout: the peacetime threat
- Atomic America: the expert public and nuclear dissent
- Conclusion: Renouncing the nuclear in nuclear citizenship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501762109
- 1501762109
- OCLC:
- 1251741113
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