Nuclear Reactions (eBook)

lt;P>James Feldman is an associate professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He is the author of A Storied Wilderness: Rewilding the Apostle Islands.

Foreword: Postwar America�s Nuclear Paradox / Paul S. SutterAcknowledgments Introduction | Nature and the Nuclear Consensus in Postwar America

Part One | First Reactions1. Leslie Groves, Report on the Trinity Test, 19452. Harry S. Truman, White House Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima, 19453. Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud, 1945 4. Joseph H. Willits, �Social Adjustments to Atomic Energy,� 19465. Headline Comics, Atomic Man, 19466. Arthur H. Compton, �The Atomic Crusade and Its Social Implications,� 19477. H. M. Parker, �Speculations on Long-Range Waste Disposal Hazards,� 19488. General Advisory Committee Reports on Building the H-Bomb, 19499. Lewis L. Strauss to Harry S. Truman, 1949

Part Two | Building Consensus1. National Security Council Report 68, 1950 2. Federal Civil Defense Administration, This Is Civil Defense, 19513. Federal Civil Defense Administration, Women in Civil Defense, 19524. Dwight D. Eisenhower, �Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy,� 19535. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, �What does Atomic Energy really mean to you?� 19536. Lewis L. Strauss, �My Faith in the Atomic Future,� 19557. Heinz Haber, The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom, 19568. Bureau of Public Roads, A Preliminary Report on Highway Needs for Civil Defense, 1956 9. Walter Reuther, Atoms for Peace: A Separate Opinion, 1956

Part Three | Challenging Consensus1. Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, �The Russell-Einstein Manifesto,� 19552. Roger Revelle and Milner B. Schaefer, �General Considerations Concerning the Ocean as a Receptacle for Artificially Radioactive Materials,� 19573. Atomic Energy Commission, Atomic Tests in Nevada, 1957 4. National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, �We Are Facing a Danger Unlike Any Danger That Has Ever Existed,� 1957 5. Atomic Energy Commission, Atoms for Peace U.S.A., 1958 6. Barry Commoner, �The Fallout Problem,� 1958 7. Edward Teller, �The Plowshare Program,� 19598. Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization, Fallout Maps, 19599. Herman Kahn and H. H. Mitchell, The Postattack Environment, 1961 10. Margaret Mead, �Are Shelters the Answer?� 1961 11. Women Strike for Peace Milk Campaign, 1961 12. Atomic Energy Commission, Annual Report, 1962 13. John F. Kennedy, �Commencement Address at American University,� 1963 14. David E. Lilienthal, Change, Hope, and the Bomb, 1963 15. John F. Kennedy, �Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,� 1963

Part Four | Confronting Paradox1. Glenn T. Seaborg, �Environmental Effects of Producing Electric Power,� 1969 2. Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association, Anti-Nuclear Pamphlet, ca. 1969 3. Lenore Marshall, �The Nuclear Sword of Damocles,� 19714. Calvert Cliffs� Coordinating Committee, Inc., v. United States Atomic Energy Commission, 19715. William R. Gould, �The State of the Atomic Industry,� 19746. Committee on the Present Danger, �Common Sense and the Common Danger,� 19767. Ralph W. Deuster, �Rx for the �Back� of the Cycle,� 19768. Leonard Rifas, All-Atomic Comics, 19769. David N. Merrill, �Nuclear Siting and Licensing Process,� 1978 10. Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Madness, 1978 11. Abalone Alliance, �Declaration of Nuclear Resistance,� 197812. Report of the President�s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, 1979 13. Gloria Gregerson, Radiation Exposure and Compensation, 1981

Part Five | Renewal1. David E. Lilienthal, Atomic Energy: A New Start, 19802. Ronald Reagan, �Address to Members of the British Parliament,� 19823. Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 19824. Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth, 19825. Ronald Reagan, �Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security,� 19836. Carl Sagan, �The Nuclear Winter,� 1983 7. Office of Technology Assessment, Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty, 19848. Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future, ca. 19849. Bernard Lown, �A Prescription for Hope,� 198510. Elizabeth Macias, High-Level Nuclear Waste Issues, 1987 11. Ronald Reagan, �Address to the 42nd Session of the United Nations,� 1987 12. Editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, �A New Era,� 1991

Epilogue | The Nuclear Present1. David Albright, Kathryn Buehler, and Holly Higgins, �Bin Laden and the Bomb,� 2002 2. Allison M. Macfarlane, �Yucca Mountain and High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal,� 20063. Oregon Department of Energy, Hanford Cleanup: The First Twenty Years, 20094. Mark Z. Jacobson, �Nuclear Power Is Too Risky,� 2010 5. President�s Blue Ribbon Commission on America�s Nuclear Future, Report to the Secretary of Energy, 20126. Nuclear Energy Institute, �Nuclear Energy: Powering America�s Future,� 20137. Ken Caldeira, Kerry Emanuel, James Hansen, and Tom Wigley, �To Those Influencing Environmental Policy but Opposed to Nuclear Power,� 20138. Latuff Cartoons, Fukushima Cartoon, 2014 9. John Asafu-Adjaye et al., �An Ecomodernist Manifesto,� 2015 Index