A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission: The New World, 1939
Author: Richard G. Hewlett
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 834
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Author: Richard G. Hewlett
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 834
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 0520329368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Author: Richard G. Hewlett
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 782
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel F. Ford
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George T. Mazuzan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780520051829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francis George Gosling
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 0788178806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the origins and development of the American atomic bomb program during WWII. Begins with the scientific developments of the pre-war years. Details the role of the U.S. government in conducting a secret, nationwide enterprise that took science from the laboratory and into combat with an entirely new type of weapon. Concludes with a discussion of the immediate postwar period, the debate over the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and the founding of the Atomic Energy Commission. Chapters: the Einstein letter; physics background, 1919-1939; early government support; the atomic bomb and American strategy; and the Manhattan district in peacetime. Illustrated.
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 24
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 1084
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce W. Hevly
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0295800623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an “empty” place, the U.S. government located a disproportionate number of nuclear facilities—particularly the ones most likely to spread pollution—in western states. The Manhattan Project manufactured plutonium at Hanford, Washington; designed and assembled bombs at Los Alamos, New Mexico; and detonated the world’s first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on June 16, 1945. In the years that followed the war, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected additional western sites for its work. Many westerners initially welcomed the atom. Like federal officials, they, too, regarded their region as “empty,” or underdeveloped. Facilities to make, test, and base atomic weapons, sites to store nuclear waste, and even nuclear power plants were regarded as assets. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, regional attitudes began to change. At a variety of locales, ranging from Eskimo Alaska to Mormon Utah, westerners devoted themselves to resisting the atom and its effects on their environments and communities. Just as the atomic age had dawned in the American West, so its artificial sun began to set there. The Atomic West brings together contributions from several disciplines to explore the impact on the West of the development of atomic power from wartime secrecy and initial postwar enthusiasm to public doubts and protest in the 1970s and 1980s. An impressive example of the benefits of interdisciplinary studies on complex topics, The Atomic West advances our understanding of both regional history and the history of science, and does so with human communities as a significant focal point. The book will be of special interest to students and experts on the American West, environmental history, and the history of science and technology.
Author: Elisabeth Roehrlich
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2022-04-05
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1421443333
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Based on unique access to the IAEA Archives in Vienna and numerous interviews with leading diplomats and scientists, this book provides the first comprehensive, empirically grounded, and independent study on the history of the International Atomic Energy Agency"--