By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture At the Dawn of the Atomic Age
By the author of A Night to Remember, the classic account of the sinking of the Titanic—which was not only made into a 1958 movie but also led director James Cameron to use Lord as a consultant on his epic 1997 film—as well as acclaimed ...
Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.
Frederick Iackson Turner's thesis about “The Closing of the Western Frontier,” no matter how discredited and how politically incorrect, obviously remains a vital myth in the American psyche; or, at least, a potent template for the ...
Peter Bacon Hales, Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project (Urbana: Univ. of illinois Press, 1997), 211. 20. see Fisher, Los Alamos Experience, 242. 21. Laura Fermi, “The Fermis' Path to Los Alamos,” in Reminiscences of Los ...
It presents historical scholarship on art and popular culture alongside the work of artists responding to the bomb, as well as artists discussing their own work.
"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion."
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut), language: English, abstract: The dropping of two US nuclear bombs on Japan ended World War ...
Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture.
But even veteran agents Braun and Books are unprepared for what the electrifying future holds in the third novel in the steampunk adventure series.
By examining how Oppenheimer and Bethe--two men with similar backgrounds but divergent aspirations and characters--struggled with these moral dilemmas, one of our foremost historians of physics tells the story of modern physics, the ...