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The dragon's tail : Americans face the atomic age /
"When President Harry Truman introduced the atomic bomb to the world in 1945, he described it as a God-given harnessing of "the basic power of the universe." Six days later a New York Times editorial framed the dilemma of the new Atomic Age for its readers: "Here the long pilgrim...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Culture, politics, and the Cold War.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Atomic familiars on the radioactive landscape
- Fallout stories
- Nuclear approach/avoidance : social scientists and the bomb
- Survival of self and nation under atomic attack
- Good bomb/bad bomb
- The atomic kid : American children vs. the bomb.