Book ID: CBB000083796

The atomic West (1998)

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Hevly, Bruce W. (Editor)
Findlay, John M. (Editor)


Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
Publication date: 1998


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: x + 286 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Hevly, Bruce, Findlay, John M.: The atomic West: Region and nation, 1942-1992. Ficken, Robert E.: Grand Coulee and Hanford: The atomic bomb and the development of the Columbia River. Goldberg, Stanley: General Groves and the atomic West: The making and the meaning of Hanford. Abbott, Carl: Building the atomic cities: Richland, Los Alamos, and the American planning language. Herken, Gregg: The University of California, the Federal Weapons Labs, and the founding of the atomic West. Szasz, Ferenc M.: James L. Tuck: Scientific polymath and eternal optimist of the atomic West. Hacker, Barton C.: “Hotter than a $2 pistol”: Fallout, sheep, and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1953-1986. O'Neill, Dan: Alaska and the firecracker boys: The story of Project Chariot. Wellock, Thomas: Radical initiatives and moderate alternatives: California's 1976 nuclear safeguards initiative. Pope, Daniel: Antinuclear activism in the Pacific Northwest: WPPSS and its enemies. Glass, Matthew: Air Force, Western Shoshone, and Mormon rhetoric of place and the MX conflict.


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Authors & Contributors
Hewlett, Richard G.
Hacker, Barton C.
Mazuzan, George T.
Seidel, Robert W.
Walker, J. Samuel
Bruheze, Adri de la
Journals
Public Historian
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Erkenntnis: International Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Historian: Journal of History
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Publishers
University of California Press
Iowa State University Press
Simon & Schuster
St. Martin's Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
Concepts
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Radioactivity
Science
Nuclear testing
Atomic bomb
People
Harris, Gilbert Dennison
Teller, Edward
Tuck, James L.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Spain
Nevada (U.S.)
Institutions
United States. Atomic Energy Commission
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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