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Atomic Americans : Citizens in a Nuclear State
Title
Atomic Americans : Citizens in a Nuclear State / Sarah Robey.
ISBN
9781501762116
9781501762093
9781501762109
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (240 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Examines how American civic life and ideas about citizenship changed in response to the threat of nuclear attack in the early years of the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Introduction: Si vis pacem, para bellum [If you want peace,
prepare for war]
Stop "play[ing] pattycake with the whole issue": citizen calls for civil defense
"Between the devil and the deep": civil defense and the early Cold War political landscape
The man in the white lab coat: the uses of scientists and scientific authority
The fallout from fallout: the peacetime threat
Atomic America: the expert public and nuclear dissent
Conclusion: Renouncing the nuclear in nuclear citizenship.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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