In this book the author discusses how the nuclear culture in the United States was created and how that culture had an effect on the atomic age of the post-war twentieth century.
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The scope of the Glossary of Nuclear Terms (Lexikon zur Kernenergie) is intended to focus on the key terms concerning the public debate about the peaceful use of nuclear energy, in order to explain the meanings of technical terms that may be unfamiliar to many people.
"Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in lifelike terms such as 'decay…
"A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age--from X-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan--written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from s…
This is the story of a new science. Beginning with an obscure discovery in 1896, radioactivity led researchers on a quest for understanding that ultimately confronted the intersection of knowledge and mystery. Mysterious from the start, radioactivity attracted researchers who st…
How can ecocriticism and ecology-conscious scholars engage with Japanese literature and culture? This volume attempts to provide the most updated answers to this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express thei…