Book ID: CBB000951015

Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex (2007)

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Taylor, Bryan C. (Editor)
Kinsella, William J. (Editor)
Depoe, Stephen P. (Editor)
Metzler, Maribeth S. (Editor)


Rowman & Littlefield


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: vii + 268 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contributors: Stephen P. Depoe, Jennifer Duffield Hamilton, William J. Kinsella, Jason N. Krupar, Laura A. McNamara, Maribeth S. Metzler, Eric L. Morgan, Jay Mullen, Tarla Rai Peterson, and Bryan C. Taylor.


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Review Schmid, Sonja D. (2009) Review of "Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex". Technology and Culture (p. 244). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jacobs, Robert Alan
Gordin, Michael D.
Wellerstein, Alex
Weiner, Sharon K.
Walker, John
Walker, David M.
Journals
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Western Historical Quarterly
Technology and Culture
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Journal of Contemporary History
Journal of Cold War Studies
Publishers
University of Massachusetts Press
University of Chicago Press
The MIT Press
Stanford University Press
Princeton University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Science and war; science and the military
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Cold War
Science and politics
Technology and war; technology and the military
Arms race
People
Truman, Harry S.
Stalin, Joseph
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Everett, Hugh, III
Conant, James Bryant
Christofilos, Nicholas Constantine
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
South Dakota (U.S.)
Russia
New Mexico (U.S.)
Great Britain
Institutions
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
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