Article ID: CBB001251855

Introduction: British Nuclear Culture (2012)

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Hogg, Jonathan (Author)
Laucht, Christoph (Author)


British Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 45, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 479-493


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: First article in special issue: British Nuclear Culture
Language: English

In the extended introduction to this special issue on British nuclear culture, the guest editors outline the main historiographical and conceptual contours of British nuclear scholarship, and explore whether we can begin to define `British nuclear culture' before introducing the contributors to this special issue, whose work we have organized into three broad areas. The first part is devoted to three articles that offer explicit and extended attempts to reconceptualize British nuclear culture, illuminating the complex links between nuclear science, the state and the individual citizen. The second part of this issue is devoted to three articles that concentrate on aspects of the history of nuclear science -- focusing particularly on intellectuals, nuclear scientists and enthusiasts -- alongside analysis of the popularization of nuclear science as well as the relationship between the state and nuclear science and its practitioners. In the third part, four articles examine the diverse ways in which `official' narratives of the atomic age can be questioned, disrupted or enhanced by analysing the significance of journalistic, anti-nuclear and fictional narratives to the development of nuclear culture in Britain.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Hughes, Jeff (2012) What Is British Nuclear Culture? Understanding Uranium 235. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 495-518). unapi

Article Maguire, Richard (2012) “Never a Credible Weapon”: Nuclear Cultures in British Government during the Era of the H-Bomb. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 519-533). unapi

Article Hogg, Jonathan (2012) “The Family That Feared Tomorrow”: British Nuclear Culture and Individual Experience in the Late 1950s. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 535-549). unapi

Article Johnson, Paige (2012) Safeguarding the Atom: The Nuclear Enthusiasm of Muriel Howorth. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 551-571). unapi

Article Desmarais, Ralph (2012) Jacob Bronowski: A Humanist Intellectual for an Atomic Age, 1946--1956. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 573-589). unapi

Article Laucht, Christoph (2012) Atoms for the People: The Atomic Scientists' Association, the British State and Nuclear Education in the Atom Train Exhibition, 1947--1948. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 591-608). unapi

Article Bingham, Adrian (2012) “The monster”? The British Popular Press and Nuclear Culture, 1945--early 1960s. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 609-624). unapi

Article Burkett, Jodi (2012) The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Changing Attitudes towards the Earth in the Nuclear Age. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 625-639). unapi

Article Seed, David (2012) Seven Days to Noon: Containing the Atomic Threat. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 641-652). unapi

Article Cordle, Daniel (2012) Protect/Protest: British Nuclear Fiction of the 1980s. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 653-669). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Roger J. C. Thomas
Vowinckel, Annette
Payk, Marcus M
Lindenberger, Thomas
Gavin, Francis J.
Zenzen, Joan M.
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and politics
Science and society
Cold War
Popularization
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Soviet Union
Germany
France
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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