Report
Report

Author: United States. Congress Senate

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 1812

ISBN-13:

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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States

Author: United States. Congress. House

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 1650

ISBN-13:

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Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

Media and the American Mind
Media and the American Mind

Author: Daniel J. Czitrom

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2010-02-03

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0807899208

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In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.

The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project

Author: Francis George Gosling

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 0788178806

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A 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.