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The dragon's tail : Americans face the atomic age
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The dragon's tail : Americans face the atomic age / Robert A. Jacobs.
ISBN
9781558497276 (paper : alk. paper)
1558497277 (paper : alk. paper)
9781558497269 (library cloth : alk. paper)
1558497269 (library cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xii, 151 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2010
Series
Culture, politics, and the Cold War
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: At the core of the bomb, narratives
Atomic familiars on the radioactive landscape
Fallout stories
Nuclear approach/avoidance : social scientists and the bomb
Survival of self and nation under atomic attack
Good bomb/bad bomb
The atomic kid : American children vs. the bomb
Conclusion: The magical and the mundane.
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