Fallout : a historian reflects on America's half-century encounter with nuclear weapons / Paul Boyer...
Fallout : a historian reflects on America's half-century encounter with nuclear weapons / Paul Boyer...
Fallout : a historian reflects on America's half-century encounter with nuclear weapons / Paul Boyer.
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Publisher
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1998.
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N973.92/50
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Language
English
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Physical content
xix, 280 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
I. Early Responses. 1. The Day America First Heard the News. 2. How Americans Imagined the Bomb They Dropped. 3. President Truman, the American People, and the Atomic Bomb. 4. Diplomats and Strategists Confront the Bomb -- II. Nuclear Culture in the Cold War's High Tide. 5. The American Medical Prof...
14. Nuclear Menace in the Mass Culture of the Late Cold War Era and Beyond / Paul Boyer and Eric Idsvoog. 15. Hiroshima in American Memory. 16. The Enola Gay Controversy and the Perils of "Historical Revisionism"
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Publisher
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1998.
Place of Publication
Ohio
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
Fallout offers the reflections and observations of historian Paul Boyer on the fascinating and complex impact of the bomb in American life from the special perspective of a person who experienced and participated in the events and movements about which he writes. Boyer provides us with a rich understanding of nuclear reality in American thought and...
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Fallout : a historian reflects on America's half-century encounter with nuclear weapons / Paul Boyer.
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Fall out.
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Includes index.
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c1998.
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N973.92/50
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74VMj0XQMjLX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMj0XQMjLX
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ISBN
0814207863 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814207857 (alk. paper)
0814207855 (alk. paper)
9780814207864 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
973.92
MMS ID
991001237929702626
