Preface |
Introduction / Rosemary B. Mariner |
Context of American Culture and the Bomb / Part I: |
Sixty Years and Counting: Nuclear Themes in American Culture, 1945 to the Present / Paul S. Boyer |
Creating and Confronting the Bomb / Part II: |
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 Manhattan 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 |
Containing and Coping with the Bomb / Part III: |
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 |
Culture and the Bomb / Part IV: |
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 |
Commemorating the Bomb The Oak Ridge International Friendship Bell / Edward W. LollisPart V: |
The Challenges of Preserving America's Nuclear Weapons Complex / Jason Krupar |
Bibliographical Essay / G. Kurt Piehler |
Contributors |
Index |
Preface |
Introduction / Rosemary B. Mariner |
Context of American Culture and the Bomb / Part I: |
Sixty Years and Counting: Nuclear Themes in American Culture, 1945 to the Present / Paul S. Boyer |
Creating and Confronting the Bomb / Part II: |
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 |