Atomic age America

Atomic age America

by Melosi, Martin V.

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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.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Atomic age America / Martin V. Melosi, University of Houston.

Summary

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2016.

Notes

Originally published 2013 by Pearson Education, Inc.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiii, 366 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781315509778, 1315509776, 9781315509761, 1315509768, 9781315509747, 1315509741, 9781138452305, 1138452300, 9780205742547, 0205742548, 9781315509754, 131550975X
  • DOI:10.4324/9781315509778
  • oclc:on1058630691
  • LC Classification:U264.3.M45 2016
  • Dewey Decimal:355.02/170973

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- Introduction: A Most Controversial Technology -- Endnotes -- Chapter 1 A Community of Scientists: Atomic Theory over the Centuries -- Introduction: Atomic Theory to Atomic Bombs -- A Community of Thinkers, A World of Ideas -- Atomism in the Ancient World -- Anti-atomism in the Middle Ages and the Coming Scientific Revolution -- The Newtonian World -- The Nineteenth Century: A Transition Era -- Merging Physics and Chemistry to Understand the Atom -- The Mechanical Worldview Under Siege -- The Electron, X-rays, and Modern Physics -- A Planetary Model of the Atom -- The Quantum and the Einsteinian World -- The Bohr-Sommerfeld Atomic Model -- Uncertainty -- Conclusion: Toward Harnessing Atomic Energy -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2 Government Mobilizes the Atom: War, Big Science, and the Manhattan Project -- Introduction: Science and the State -- Science and Government Through World War I -- Russia, World War I, and Big Science -- The 1930s: The Great Terror, Nazism, Anti-Semitism, and Science -- Fission: The Turning Point -- Reluctant Steps Toward Bomb Research -- The German Bomb Progr…

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Subjects

Arms race Arms race -- History -- 20th century Centrales nucléaires -- États-Unis Cold War Course aux armements -- Histoire -- 20e… Deterrence (Strategy) Dissuasion (stratégie) Énergie nucléaire -- Histoire. -- États… Guerre froide History HISTORY -- 20th Century. -- United Stat… HISTORY -- Military Non-prolifération nucléaire Nuclear energy Nuclear energy -- History. -- United St… Nuclear nonproliferation Nuclear Power Plants Nuclear power plants -- United States Nuclear weapons Nuclear weapons -- History. -- United S…

Writers

Melosi, Martin V.

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