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Atomic Americans : citizens in a nuclear state /

"Examines how American civic life and ideas about citizenship changed in response to the threat of nuclear attack in the early years of the Cold War"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robey, Sarah E., 1986- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Nuclear weapons > Social aspects > United States.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
Citizenship > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Nuclear weapons > United States > Public opinion.
Group identity > United States > History > 20th century.
Citizenship > Social aspects.
Group identity.
Nuclear weapons > Public opinion.
Nuclear weapons > Social aspects.
Social aspects.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Si vis pacem, para bellum [If you want peace,
  • prepare for war]
  • Stop "play[ing] pattycake with the whole issue": citizen calls for civil defense
  • "Between the devil and the deep": civil defense and the early Cold War political landscape
  • The man in the white lab coat: the uses of scientists and scientific authority
  • The fallout from fallout: the peacetime threat
  • Atomic America: the expert public and nuclear dissent
  • Conclusion: Renouncing the nuclear in nuclear citizenship.