By the bomb's early light: American thought and culture at the dawn of the atomic age
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| Beschreibung: | XX, 440 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0394528786 |
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| adam_text | Paul Bayer
by the
Bomb s
Early Light
American
Thought and Culture
at the Damn of the Atomic Age
Pantheon Books/New York
Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xv
One FIRST REACTIONS 1
/ The Whole World Gasped 3
Two OVERTURE: The World-Government Movement 27
2 The Summons to Action 29
3 Atomic-Bomb Nightmares and World-Government Dreams 33
Three THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS:
From Bomb-Makers to Political Sages 47
4 The Political Agenda of the Scientists Movement 49
5 To the Village Square: The Public Agenda of the Scientists
Movement 59
6 The Uses of Fear 65
7 Representative Text: One World or None 76
8 The Mixed Message of Bikini 82
9 The Scientists Movement in Eclipse 93
Four ANODYNE TO TERROR:
Fantasies of a Techno-Atomic Utopia 107
10 Atomic Cars, Artificial Suns, Cancer-Curing Isotopes:
The Search for a Silver Lining 109
11 Bright Dreams and Disturbing Realities: The Psychological
Function of the Atomic-Utopia Visions 122
Five THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF ATOMIC ENERGY:
Prophecies and Prescriptions 131
12 Optimistic Forecasts 133
13 Darker Social Visions 141
14 Experts and Ideologues Offer Their Prescriptions 151
15 Social Science into the Breach 166
Six THE CRISIS OF MORALS AND VALUES 179
16 Justifications, Rationalizations, Evasions: Hiroshima,
Nagasaki, and the American Conscience 181
17 Victory for What?—The Voice of the Minority 196
18 Atomic Weapons andJudeo-Christian Ethics: The
Discourse Begins 211
19 Human Nature, Technological Man, the Apocalyptic Tradition 230
Seven CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE
EARLY ATOMIC ERA 241
20 Words Fail: The Bomb and the Literary Imagination 243
21 Visions of the Atomic Future in Science Fiction and
Speculative Fantasy 257
22 Second Thoughts About Prometheus: The Atomic Bomb and
Attitudes Toward Science 266
23- Psychological Fallout: Consciousness and the Bomb 275
Eight THE END OF THE BEGINNING:
Settling in for the Long Haul 289
24 Dagtvood to the Rescue: The Campaign to Promote the
Peaceful Atom 291
25 Secrecy and Soft Soap: Soothing Fears of the Bomb 303
26 The Reassuring Message of Civil Defense 313
27 1949-1950: Embracing the Bomb 334
Epilogue: From the H-Bomb to Star Wars:
The Continuing Cycles of Activism and Apathy 352
Notes 369
Index 423
Photo sections begin on pages 17, 85, 155, and 309
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