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

• Introduction / Rosemary B. Mariner -- pt. 1. Context of American culture and the bomb. Sixty years and counting: nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present / Paul S. Boyer -- pt. 2. 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 -- The Manhatten project revealed: local press response to the atomic bomb announcements, August-September, 1945 / George E. Webb -- Lost almost and caught between the fences: the women of Los Alamos, 1943-1945 and later / Mary Anne Schofield -- 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 -- pt. 3. 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 -- Defending the American way and containing the atom: Ideology and U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy since 1945 / Shane J. Maddock -- Continuity of government measures for civil defense during the Cuban Missile Crisis / Tracy C. Davis -- Mightier than missiles: The rhetoric of civil defense for rural American families, 1950-1970 / Jenny Barker Devine -- Expecting the unexpected: nuclear terrorism in 1950s Hollywood films / Robert E. Hunter -- pt. 4. Culture and the bomb. Voices from the deep: Life and culture aboard U.S. Navy nuclear submarines during the Cold War / William David Freeman -- Exploding the Strangelove myth: Cold War nuclear weapons work and the testing times of William Ogle / Todd A. Hanson -- The early nuclear age and visions of future war / David M. Walker -- Oppenheimer and Rabi: American Cold War physicists as public intellectuals / Michael A. Day -- "Out in the open": popular representations of some American nuclear weapons in the early Cold War / Christopher John Bright -- pt. 5. Commemorating the bomb. The Oak Ridge International Friendship Bell / Edward W. Lollis -- The challenges of preserving America's nuclear weapons complex / Jason Krupar -- Bibliographical essay / G. Kurt Piehler.

Ämnesord

Atomic bomb  -- United States -- History -- Congresses. (LCSH)

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

Atomic bomb  -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Cold War  -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Popular culture  -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses. (LCSH)

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

Kernwaffe.  (swd)

Atombomber  -- historia -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Atombomber  -- sociala aspekter -- historia -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Kärnvapen  -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1945- (sao)

Kalla kriget  -- sociala aspekter -- Förenta staterna (sao)

United States  -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Congresses. (LCSH)

USA.  (swd)

Geschichte 1943-2008  (swd)

Genre

Konferenser  (saogf)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Sf.07 Kärnvapen

Klassifikation

QC773.3.U5 (LCC)

355.8251190973 (DDC)

Sf.07-qa (kssb/8)