Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Atomic Age written by Rodney P. Carlisle and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 500 A-Z entries cover topics pertinent to the atomic age, including nuclear-weapons development, nuclear energy, policy decisions, international crises, and biographical sketches of major scientists and government officials.

Download or read book Education for the Atomic Age written by Collier's encyclopedia year book and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Atomic Age America written by Martin V. Melosi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy¿focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power¿on the lives of Americans within a world context. The text examines the social, political, diplomatic, environmental, and technical impacts of atomic energy on the 20th and 21st centuries, with a look back to the origins of atomic theory.

Download or read book Pocket Encyclopedia of Atomic Energy written by Frank Gaynor and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Making of the Atomic Age written by Alwyn McKay and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Education for the Atomic Age written by Percy Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Historical Encyclopedia of Atomic Energy written by Stephen E. Atkins and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2000-01-30 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each entry concludes with a suggested reading. The encyclopedia includes a timeline of important events in the global development of atomic energy, more than 30 photos, and a selected general bibliography."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Education for the Atomic Age written by Percy Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book By the Bomb s Early Light written by Paul Boyer and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the early years of the atomic age. Paul Boyer argues that the major aspects of the long-running debates about nuclear armament and disarmament developed and took shape soon after the bombing of Hiroshima. The book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons, opinion polls, radio programs, movies, literature, song lyrics, slang, and interviews with leading opinion-makers of the time. Through these materials, Boyer shows the surprising and profoundly disturbing ways in which the bomb quickly and totally penetrated the fabric of American life, from the chillingly prophetic forecasts of observers like Lewis Mumford to the Hollywood starlet who launched her career as the 'anatomic bomb.' In a new preface, Boyer discusses recent changes in nuclear politics and attitudes toward the nuclear age.

Download or read book Education for the Atomic Age A Symposium by the Editors of Collier s Encyclopedia With Illustrations written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book By the Bomb s Early Light written by Paul S. Boyer and published by Pantheon Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural "fallout" in America during the early years of the atomic age. The book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons, opinion polls, radio programs, movies, literature, song lyrics, slang, and interviews with leading opinion-makers of the time. Through these materials, Boyer shows the surprising and profoundly disturbing ways in which the bomb quickly and totally penetrated the fabric of American life, from the chillingly prophetic forecasts of observers like Lewis Mumford to the Hollywood starlet who launched her career as the "anatomic bomb". In a new preface, Boyer discusses recent changes in nuclear politics and attitudes toward the nuclear age.

Download or read book Adventures in the Atomic Age written by Glenn Theodore Seaborg and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned physicist describes his Nobel Prize-winning career, his work with the Manhattan Project, his discovery of the element that makes atomic bombs explode, and his term as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Download or read book The Atomic West written by Bruce W. Hevly and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an “empty” place, the U.S. government located a disproportionate number of nuclear facilities—particularly the ones most likely to spread pollution—in western states. The Manhattan Project manufactured plutonium at Hanford, Washington; designed and assembled bombs at Los Alamos, New Mexico; and detonated the world’s first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on June 16, 1945. In the years that followed the war, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected additional western sites for its work. Many westerners initially welcomed the atom. Like federal officials, they, too, regarded their region as “empty,” or underdeveloped. Facilities to make, test, and base atomic weapons, sites to store nuclear waste, and even nuclear power plants were regarded as assets. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, regional attitudes began to change. At a variety of locales, ranging from Eskimo Alaska to Mormon Utah, westerners devoted themselves to resisting the atom and its effects on their environments and communities. Just as the atomic age had dawned in the American West, so its artificial sun began to set there. The Atomic West brings together contributions from several disciplines to explore the impact on the West of the development of atomic power from wartime secrecy and initial postwar enthusiasm to public doubts and protest in the 1970s and 1980s. An impressive example of the benefits of interdisciplinary studies on complex topics, The Atomic West advances our understanding of both regional history and the history of science, and does so with human communities as a significant focal point. The book will be of special interest to students and experts on the American West, environmental history, and the history of science and technology.

Download or read book The Atomic Age Opens written by Pocket Books and published by Pocket Books of Canada. This book was released on 1945 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Age of Radiance written by Craig Nelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age--from X-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan--written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday lives--from nuclear medicine and food irradiation to microwave technology--its invisible rays trigger biological damage, birth defects, and cellular mayhem. Written with a biographer's passion, Craig Nelson unlocks one of the great mysteries of the universe in a work that is both tragic and triumphant. From the end of the nineteenth century through the use of the atomic bomb in World War II to the twenty-first century's confrontation with the dangers of nuclear power, Nelson illuminates a pageant of fascinating historical figures: Enrico Fermi, Marie and Pierre Curie, Albert Einstein, FDR, Robert Oppenheimer, and Ronald Reagan, among others. He reveals many little-known details, including how Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler transformed America from a country that created light bulbs and telephones into one that split atoms; how the most grotesque weapon ever invented could realize Alfred Nobel's lifelong dream of global peace; how emergency workers and low-level utility employees fought to contain a run-amok nuclear reactor, while wondering if they would live or die. Brilliantly fascinating and remarkably accessible, The Age of Radiance traces mankind's complicated and difficult relationship with the dangerous power it discovered and made part of civilization."--Publisher information.

Download or read book The Manhattan Project written by Michael B. Stoff and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1991 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manifesto for the Atomic Age written by Virgil Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: