Book ID: CBB158974609

Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World (2020)

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Mays, Michael (Editor)


Washington State University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 269
Language: English

At the Hanford History Project's March 2017 "Legacies of the Manhattan Project at 75 Years" conference, professionals from a broad range of backgrounds--working scientists, government employees, retired health physicists, downwinders, representatives from community groups, impassioned lay people, as well as scholars working in different academic fields--attended and gave presentations. Covering topics from print journalism, activism, nuclear testing, and science and education to health physics, environmental cleanup, and atomic kitsch, their essays along with newly commissioned research, deepen our understanding of familiar matters and illuminate historical corners and crevices unexplored by earlier academic generations. By illuminating facets of the Manhattan Project's continuing impact, they demonstrate that the past lives on.

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Review Ian Stacy (2022) Review of "Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World". Environmental History (pp. 174-176). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter David P.D. Munns (2020) The Atom Goes To College”: The Teaching Reactors that Trained the Atomic Age. In: Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 Years of a Nuclear World (pp. 93-112). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bridger, Sarah
Jo-Ansie van Wyk
Kemmis, Gabrielle
Benjamin W. Goossen
Johnson, Alison F.
Wellerstein, Alex
Concepts
Science and war; science and the military
Cold War
Government sponsored science
Science and politics
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Physics
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Switzerland
Spain
South Africa
Russia
Institutions
Strategic Defense Initiative
KGB
Lincoln Laboratory
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
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