Nuclear reactions : documenting American encounters with nuclear energy /

Nuclear reactions : documenting American encounters with nuclear energy / edited by James W. Feldman. - Seattle and London : University of Washington Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xix, 324 pages). - Weyerhaeuser environmental classics .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Foreword: Postwar America's Nuclear Paradox ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Nature and the Nuclear Consensus in Postwar America ; PART 1 FIRST REACTIONS ; Leslie Groves, Report on the Trinity Test, 1945. Harry S. Truman, White House Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945 Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud, 1945 ; Joseph H. Willits, "Social Adjustments to Atomic Energy," 1946 ; Headline Comics, Atomic Man, 1946 ; Arthur H. Compton, "The Atomic Crusade and Its Social Implications," 1947. H.M. Parker, "Speculations on Long-Range Waste Disposal Hazards," 1948 General Advisory Committee 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. Federal Civil Defense Administration, This Is Civil Defense, 1951 Federal Civil Defense Administration, Women in Civil Defense, 1952 ; Dwight D. Eisenhower, "Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy," 1953. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, "What does Atomic Energy really mean to you?" 1953 Lewis L. Strauss, "My Faith in the Atomic Future," 1955 ; Heinz Haber, The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom, 1956.



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Nuclear energy--History--United States--Sources.
Nuclear industry--History--United States--Sources.
Nuclear power plants--History--United States--Sources.
Nuclear weapons--History--United States--Sources.


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