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  • 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.