Atomic Americans : : Citizens in a Nuclear State / / Sarah E. Robey.
At the dawn of the Atomic Age, Americans encountered troubling new questions brought about by the nuclear revolution: In a representative democracy, who is responsible for national public safety? How do citizens imagine themselves as members of the national collective when faced with the priority of...
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Robey, Sarah E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Atomic Americans : Citizens in a Nuclear State / Sarah E. Robey. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (240 p.) : 11 b&w halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Wars to Come -- 1. Stop “Play[ing] Pattycake with the Whole Issue”: -- 2. “Between the Devil and the Deep”: -- 3. The Man in the White Lab Coat: -- 4. The Fallout from Fallout: -- 5. Atomic America: -- Conclusion: -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star At the dawn of the Atomic Age, Americans encountered troubling new questions brought about by the nuclear revolution: In a representative democracy, who is responsible for national public safety? How do citizens imagine themselves as members of the national collective when faced with the priority of individual survival? What do nuclear weapons mean for transparency and accountability in government? What role should scientific experts occupy within a democratic government? Nuclear weapons created a new arena for debating individual and collective rights. In turn, it threatened to destabilize the very basis of American citizenship.As Sarah E. Robey shows in Atomic Americans, people negotiated the contours of nuclear citizenship through overlapping public discussions about survival. Policymakers and citizens disagreed about the scale of civil defense programs and other public safety measures. As the public learned more about the dangers of nuclear fallout, critics articulated concerns about whether the federal government was operating in its citizens' best interests. By the early 1960s, a significant antinuclear movement had emerged, which ultimately contributed to the 1963 nuclear testing ban. Atomic Americans tells the story of a thoughtful body politic engaged in rewriting the rubric of rights and responsibilities that made up American citizenship in the Atomic Age. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Citizenship Social aspects United States History 20th century. Cold War Social aspects United States. Group identity United States History 20th century Group identity United States History 20th century. Nuclear weapons Social aspects United States. Nuclear weapons United States Public opinion. Cold War History. Military History. U.S. History. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. bisacsh Nuclear culture in the US, Atomic energy commission, Nuclear civil defense, nuclear protest 1950s and 1960s, Nuclear weapons science, America and the atomic age. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110751826 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 English 9783110992960 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 9783110992939 ZDB-23-DEG https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501762116 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501762116 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501762116/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Wars to Come -- 1. Stop “Play[ing] Pattycake with the Whole Issue”: -- 2. “Between the Devil and the Deep”: -- 3. The Man in the White Lab Coat: -- 4. The Fallout from Fallout: -- 5. Atomic America: -- Conclusion: -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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