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  title info:
    title: By the bomb's early light
    sub title: American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age
  name:
    name part: Boyer, Paul S.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: 1. First reactions. "The whole world gasped" -- 2. Overture: the world-government movement. The summons to action -- Atomic-bomb nightmares and world-government dreams -- 3. The atomic scientists: from bomb-makers to political sages. The political agenda of the scientists' movement -- "To the village square": the public agenda of the scientists' movement -- The uses of fear -- Representative text: One world or none -- The mixed message of Bikini -- The scientists' movement in eclipse -- 4. Anodyne to terror: fantasies of a techno-atomic Utopia. Atomic cars, artificial suns, cancer-curing isotopes: the search for a silver lining -- Bright dreams and disturbing realities: the psychological function of the atomic-Utopia visions -- 5. The social implications of atomic energy" prophecies and prescriptions. Optimistic forecasts -- Darker social visions -- Experts and ideologues offer their prescriptions -- Social science into the breach -- 6. The crisis of morals and values. Justifications, rationalizations, evasions: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the American conscience -- "Victory for what?": the voice of the minority -- Atomic weapons and Judeo-Christian ethics: the discourse begins -- Human nature, technological man, the Apocalyptic tradition -- 7. Culture and consciousness in the early atomic era. Worlds fail: the bomb and the literary imagination -- Visions of the atomic future in science fiction and speculative fantasy -- Second thoughts about Prometheus: the atomic bomb and attitudes toward science -- Psychological fallout: consciousness and the bomb -- 8. The end of the beginning: settling in for the long haul. Dagwood to the rescue: the campaign to promote the "peaceful atom" -- Secrecy and soft soap: soothing fears of the bomb -- The reassuring message of civil defense -- 1949-1950: embracing the bomb -- Epilogue : From the H-bomb to star wars: the continuing cycles of activism and apathy.
  note: Paul Boyer ; with a new preface by the author.
  note: Originally published: New York : Pantheon, 1985. With new preface
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-422) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Civilization
    temporal: 1945-
  subject:
    topic: Atomic bomb
  subject:
    topic: Atomic bomb
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  classification: E169.12 .B684 1994
  classification: 973.92
  classification: NQ 8340
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 94004241
  identifier: 9780807875704 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0807875708 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0807844802
  identifier: 9780807844809
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
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    record creation date: 210910
    record change date: 20250816223221.8
    record identifier: in00004361628