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

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editor

Feldman, James W.

Contents

Foreword: Postwar America's nuclear paradox / by Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction: Nature and the nuclear consensus in postwar America -- Part 1. Frst reactions. Report on the Trinity Test, 1945 / Leslie Groves ; White House Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945 / Harry S. Truman ; Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud, 1945 ; "Social adjustments to atomic energy," 1946 / Joseph H. Willits ; Headline comics, Atomic Man, 1946 ; "The atomic crusade and its social implications," 1947 / Arthur H. Compton ; "Speculations on long-range waste disposal hazards," 1948 / H. M. Parker ; General Advisory Committe reports on building the H-bomb, 1949 ; Lewis L. Strauss to Harry S. Truman, 1949 -- Part 2. Building consensus. "National Security Council Resolution 68," 1950 ; This is Civil Defense, 1951 / Federal Civil Defense Administration ; Women in Civil Defense, 1952 / Federal Civil Defense Administration ; "Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on peaceful uses of atomic energy," 1953 / Dwight D. Eisenhower ; "What does atomic energy really mean to you?" 1953 / Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation ; "My faith in the atomic future," 1955 / Lewis L. Strauss ; The Walt Disney story of our friend the atom, 1956 / Heinz Haber ; A preliminary report on highway needs for Civil Defense, 1956 / Bureau of Public Roads ; Atoms for peace : a separate opinion, 1956 / Walter Reuther -- Part 3. Challenging consensus. "The Russell-Einstein manifesto," 1955 / Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein ; "General considerations concerning the ocean as a receptacle for artificially radioactive materials," 1957 / Roger Revelle and Milner B. Schaefer ; Atomic tests in Nevada, 1957 / Atomic Energy Commission ; "We are facing a danger unlike any danger that has ever existed," 1957 / National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy ; Atoms for peace U.S.A., 1958 / Atomic Energy Commission ; "The fallout problem," 1958 / Barry Commoner ; "The Plowshare Program," 1959 / Edward Teller ; Fallout maps, 1959 / Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization ; The postattack environment, 1961 / Herman Kahn and H. H. Mitchell ; "Are shelters the answer?" 1961 / Margaret Mead ; Women Strike for Peace Milk Campaign, 1961 ; Annual report, 1962 / Atomic Energy Commission ; "Commencement address at American University," 1963 / John F. Kennedy ; Change, hope, and the bomb, 1963 / David E. Lilienthal ; "Address to the American people on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty," 1963 / John F. Kennedy --

Part 4. Confronting paradox. Environmental effects of producing electric power, 1969 / Glenn T. Seaborg ; "A nuclear energy gamble," ca. 1969 / Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association ; "The nuclear sword of Damocles," 1971 / Lenore Marshall ; Calvert Clips' Coordinating Committee, Inc., v. United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1971 ; "The state of the atomic industry," 1974 / William R. Gould ; "Common sense and the common danger," 1976 / Committee on the Present Danger ; "Rx for the 'back* of the cycle," 1976 / Ralph W. Deuster ; All-atomic comics, 1976 / Leonard Rifas ; Nuclear siting and licensing process, 1978 / David N. Merrill ; Nuclear madness, 1978 / Helen Caldicott ; "Declaration of Nuclear Resistance," 1978 / Abalone Alliance ; Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, 1979 ; Radiation exposure and compensation, 1981 / Gloria Gregerson -- Part 5. Renewal. Atomic energy : a new start, 1980 / David E. Lilienthal ; "Address to Members of the British Parliament," 1982 / Ronald Reagan ; Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 ; The fate of the Earth, 1982 / Jonathan Schell ; "Address to the nation on defense and national security," 1983 / Ronald Reagan ; "The nuclear winter," 1983 / Carl Sagan ; Nuclear power in an age of uncertainty, 1984 / Office of Technology Assessment ; Disarmament begins at home, ca. 1984 / Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future ; "A prescription for hope," 1985 / Bernard Lown ; High-level nuclear waste issues, 1987 / Elizabeth Macias ; "Address to the 42nd Session of the United Nations," 1987 / Ronald Reagan ; "A new era," 1991 / Editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -- Epilogue: The nuclear present. "Bin Laden and the bomb," 2002 / David Albright, Kathryn Buehler, and Holly Higgins ; "Yucca Mountain and high-level nuclear waste disposal," 2006 / Allison M. Macfarlane ; Hanford cleanup : the first 20 Years, 2009 / Oregon Department of Energy ; "Nuclear power is too risky," 2010 / Mark Z. Jacobson ; Report to the Secretary of Energy, 2012 / President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future ; "Nuclear energy : powering America's future," 2013 / Nuclear Energy Institute ; "To those influencing environmental policy but opposed to nuclear power," 2013 / Ken Caldeira, Kerry Emanuel, James Hansen, and Tom Wigley ; Latuff Cartoons, Fukushima Cartoon, 2014 ; "An ecomodernist manifesto," 2015 / John Asafu-Adjaye et al

2017

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Sources

History

Physical description

xix, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place

United States

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Nuclear energy--History

Nuclear industry--History

Nuclear power plants--History

Nuclear weapons--History

Record ID

siris_sil_1077081

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