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Atoms for the People: The Atomic Scientists' Association, the British State and Nuclear Education in the Atom Train Exhibition, 1947--1948 (2012)

Laucht, Christoph (Author)

British Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 45, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 591-608

DOI: 10.1017/S0007087412001070

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of special issue: British Nuclear Culture
Language: English

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Science and society Popularization Exhibits Nuclear power; atomic energy 20th century, early Great Britain

This article concerns the Atom Train travelling exhibition that the chief body of the British nuclear scientists' movement, the Atomic Scientists' Association (ASA), organized in collaboration with government offices and private industry in 1947--1948. It argues that the exhibition marked an important moment within post-war British nuclear culture where nuclear scientists shared aspects of their nuclear knowledge with the British public, while simultaneously clashing with the interests of the emerging British national security state in the early Cold War.

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Article Hogg, Jonathan; Laucht, Christoph (2012) Introduction: British Nuclear Culture. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 479-493). unapi

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