Project Plowshare : The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America /
Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California's Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded government officials, scientists, and bus...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : promoting the peaceful atom
- A plan of biblical proportions
- Just drop us a card
- A program on hold
- From moratorium to test ban
- The complexities of canal construction
- Nuclear testing, nonproliferation, and Plowshare
- Making headway?
- Plowshare goes down under
- Dead as a doornail
- Conclusion : back from the dead?