Nuclear Reactions

Documenting American Encounters with Nuclear Energy
Herausgeber: Feldman, James W

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Produktbeschreibung

James Feldman is an associate professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He is the author of A Storied Wilderness: Rewilding the Apostle Islands.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780295999616
• ISBN-10: 0295999616
• Artikelnr.: 44826104

Autorenporträt

James Feldman is an associate professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He is the author of A Storied Wilderness: Rewilding the Apostle Islands.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Postwar America's Nuclear Paradox / Paul S. Sutter Acknowledgments Introduction Nature and the Nuclear Consensus in Postwar America Part One First Reactions 1. Leslie Groves
Report on the Trinity Test
1945 2. Harry S. Truman
White House Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima
1945 3. Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud
1945 4. Joseph H. Willits
"Social Adjustments to Atomic Energy
" 1946 5. Headline Comics
Atomic Man
1946 6. Arthur H. Compton
"The Atomic Crusade and Its Social Implications
" 1947 7. H. M. Parker
"Speculations on Long-Range Waste Disposal Hazards
" 1948 8. General Advisory Committee Reports on Building the H-Bomb
1949 9. Lewis L. Strauss to Harry S. Truman
1949 Part Two Building Consensus 1. National Security Council Report 68
1950 2. Federal Civil Defense Administration
This Is Civil Defense
1951 3. Federal Civil Defense Administration
Women in Civil Defense
1952 4. Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
" 1953 5. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
"What does Atomic Energy really mean to you?" 1953 6. Lewis L. Strauss
"My Faith in the Atomic Future
" 1955 7. Heinz Haber
The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom
1956 8. Bureau of Public Roads
A Preliminary Report on Highway Needs for Civil Defense
1956 9. Walter Reuther
Atoms for Peace: A Separate Opinion
1956 Part Three Challenging Consensus 1. Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein
"The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
" 1955 2. Roger Revelle and Milner B. Schaefer
"General Considerations Concerning the Ocean as a Receptacle for Artificially Radioactive Materials
" 1957 3. Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic Tests in Nevada
1957 4. National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
"We Are Facing a Danger Unlike Any Danger That Has Ever Existed
" 1957 5. Atomic Energy Commission
Atoms for Peace U.S.A.
1958 6. Barry Commoner
"The Fallout Problem
" 1958 7. Edward Teller
"The Plowshare Program
" 1959 8. Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization
Fallout Maps
1959 9. Herman Kahn and H. H. Mitchell
The Postattack Environment
1961 10. Margaret Mead
"Are Shelters the Answer?" 1961 11. Women Strike for Peace Milk Campaign
1961 12. Atomic Energy Commission
Annual Report
1962 13. John F. Kennedy
"Commencement Address at American University
" 1963 14. David E. Lilienthal
Change
Hope
and the Bomb
1963 15. John F. Kennedy
"Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
" 1963 Part Four Confronting Paradox 1. Glenn T. Seaborg
"Environmental Effects of Producing Electric Power
" 1969 2. Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association
Anti-Nuclear Pamphlet
ca. 1969 3. Lenore Marshall
"The Nuclear Sword of Damocles
" 1971 4. Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee
Inc.
v. United States Atomic Energy Commission
1971 5. William R. Gould
"The State of the Atomic Industry
" 1974 6. Committee on the Present Danger
"Common Sense and the Common Danger
" 1976 7. Ralph W. Deuster
"Rx for the 'Back' of the Cycle
" 1976 8. Leonard Rifas
All-Atomic Comics
1976 9. David N. Merrill
"Nuclear Siting and Licensing Process
" 1978 10. Helen Caldicott
Nuclear Madness
1978 11. Abalone Alliance
"Declaration of Nuclear Resistance
" 1978 12. Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island
1979 13. Gloria Gregerson
Radiation Exposure and Compensation
1981 Part Five Renewal 1. David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy: A New Start
1980 2. Ronald Reagan
"Address to Members of the British Parliament
" 1982 3. Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 4. Jonathan Schell
The Fate of the Earth
1982 5. Ronald Reagan
"Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security
" 1983 6. Carl Sagan
"The Nuclear Winter
" 1983 7. Office of Technology Assessment
Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty
1984 8. Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future
ca. 1984 9. Bernard Lown
"A Prescription for Hope
" 1985 10. Elizabeth Macias
High-Level Nuclear Waste Issues
1987 11. Ronald Reagan
"Address to the 42nd Session of the United Nations
" 1987 12. Editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
"A New Era
" 1991 Epilogue The Nuclear Present 1. David Albright
Kathryn Buehler
and Holly Higgins
"Bin Laden and the Bomb
" 2002 2. Allison M. Macfarlane
"Yucca Mountain and High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal
" 2006 3. Oregon Department of Energy
Hanford Cleanup: The First Twenty Years
2009 4. Mark Z. Jacobson
"Nuclear Power Is Too Risky
" 2010 5. President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future
Report to the Secretary of Energy
2012 6. Nuclear Energy Institute
"Nuclear Energy: Powering America's Future
" 2013 7. Ken Caldeira
Kerry Emanuel
James Hansen
and Tom Wigley
"To Those Influencing Environmental Policy but Opposed to Nuclear Power
" 2013 8. Latuff Cartoons
Fukushima Cartoon
2014 9. John Asafu-Adjaye et al.
"An Ecomodernist Manifesto
" 2015 Index