By the Bomb's Early Light : American Thought and Culture At the Dawn of the Atomic Age.
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By the Bomb's Early Light : American Thought and Culture At the Dawn of the Atomic Age.
Yazar:
Boyer, Paul.
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9780807875704
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1 online resource (464 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Party I. First Reactions -- 1. "The Whole World Gasped" -- Part II. Overture: The World Government Movement -- 2. The Summons to Action -- 3. Atomic Bomb Nightmares and World-Governing Dreams -- Part III. The Atomic Scientists: From Bomb-Makers to Poltical Sages -- 4. The Political Agenda of the Scientists' Movement -- 5. "To the Village Square": The Public Agenda of the Scientists' Movement -- 6. The Uses of Fear -- 7. Representative Text: One World or None -- 8. The Mixed Message of Bikini -- Section of Illustrations -- 9. The Scientists' Movement in Eclipse -- Part IV. Anodyne to Terror: Fantasies of a Techno Atomic Utopia -- 10. Atomic Cars, Artificial Suns, Cancer-Curing Isotopes: The Search for a Silver Lining -- 11. Bright Dreams and Disturbing Realities: The Psychological Function of the Atomic-Utopia Visions -- Part V. The Social Implications of Atomic Energy: Prophecies and Prescriptions -- 12. Optimistic Forecasts -- 13. Darker Social Visions -- 14. Experts and Ideologues Offer Their Prescriptions -- Section of Illustrations -- 15. Social Science into the Breach -- Part VI. The Crisis of Morals and Values -- 16. Justifications, Rationalizations, Evasions: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the American Conscience -- 17. "Victory For What?"--The Voice of the Minority -- 18. Atomic Weapons and Judeo-Christian Ethics: The Discourse Begins -- 19. Human Nature, Technological Man, the Apocalyptic Tradition -- Part VII. Culture and Consciousness in the Early Atomic Era -- 20. Words Fail: The Bomb and the Literary Imagination -- 21. Visions of the Atomic Future in Science Fiction and Speculative Fantasy -- 22. Second Thoughts about Prometheus: The Atomic Bomb and Attitudes Toward Science -- 23. Psychological Fallout: Consciousness and the Bomb.
Part VIII. The End of the Beginning: Settling in for the Long Haul -- 24. Dagwood to the Rescue: The Campaign to Promote the "Peaceful Atom" -- 25. Secrecy and Soft Soap: Soothing Fears of the Bomb -- Section of Illustrations -- 26. The Reassuring Message of Civil Defense -- 27. 1949-1950: Embracing the Bomb -- Epilogue: From the H-Bomb to Star Wars: The Continuing Cycles of Activism and Apathy -- Notes -- A Note on the Sources.
Özet:
Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural "fallout" in America during the early years of the atomic age. The book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons, opinion polls, radio programs, movies, literature, song lyrics, slang, and interviews with leading opinion-makers of the time. Through these materials, Boyer shows the surprising and profoundly disturbing ways in which the bomb quickly and totally penetrated the fabric of American life, from the chillingly prophetic forecasts of observers like Lewis Mumford to the Hollywood starlet who launched her career as the "anatomic bomb." In a new preface, Boyer discusses recent changes in nuclear politics and attitudes toward the nuclear age.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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