The American Atom: A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the PresentUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1991 - 369 pages Ever since the late 1930s, scientists have been sharply divided on the question of atomic energy. It is hardly surprising, then, that the American public is so apprehensive about its use. Hack M. Holl, former chief historian a the U.S. Department of Energy, characterizes the furor over nuclear energy as "one of the great debates in American history." |
Table des matières
The Manhattan Project | 21 |
Military Policy Committee Minutes May 5 1943 | 37 |
Glenn T Seaborg to Ernest O Lawrence June 13 1945 | 44 |
O R Frisch Eyewitness Account of Trinity Test | 50 |
General Grovess Report on Trinity July 18 1945 | 51 |
Leslie R Groves to George C Marshall July 30 1945 | 59 |
Atomic Energy in a Postwar World | 69 |
The McMahon Bill December 20 1945 Atomic Energy | 77 |
John Foster Dulles on Massive Retaliation 1954 | 201 |
Herman Kahn on Thermonuclear War 1960 | 203 |
Robert McNamara and Counterforce No Cities Doc trine 1962 | 207 |
Hagen Comments on Presidential Directive 59 1980 | 210 |
Ronald Reagan on Deterrence November 23 1982 | 217 |
Caspar Weinberger on United States Nuclear Deter rence Policy December 14 1982 | 220 |
Ronald Reagan on the Strategic Defense Initiative December 28 1984 | 228 |
Arms Control | 231 |
The Baruch Plan June 1946 | 91 |
Lewis L Strauss My Faith in the Atomic Future | 104 |
Political Implications of Detonation of Atomic Bomb | 110 |
USAEC General Advisory Committee Report on | 116 |
Lewis Strauss to Harry S Truman November 25 1949 | 123 |
The Oppenheimer Case | 139 |
K D Nichols to J R Oppenheimer December 23 1953 | 143 |
J R Oppenheimer to K D Nichols March 4 1954 | 145 |
Testimony in the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer | 151 |
Arthur Holly Compton to Gordon Gray April 21 1954 | 159 |
Nuclear Testing and the Test Ban | 163 |
Ralph E Lapp Civil Defense Faces New Perils November 1954 | 167 |
Atomic Energy Commission Meeting 1377 May | 174 |
W K Wyant Jr 50000 Baby Teeth June 13 1959 | 180 |
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmo sphere in Outer Space and Under Water August | 185 |
Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests J... | 188 |
Protocol to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear ... | 190 |
Deterrence | 193 |
Bernard Brodie on the Absolute Weapon 1946 | 196 |
Treaty Between the United States of America and | 243 |
Interim Agreement Between the United States | 249 |
Protocol to the Treaty Between the United States | 255 |
U S Catholic Bishops Pastoral Letter on War | 267 |
William P Clark to Archbishop Joseph L Bernadin | 274 |
Agreement Between the United States of America | 293 |
37 | 296 |
Nuclear Power | 303 |
United States Atomic Energy Commission Report on | 312 |
Proposed AEC Licensing Procedure and Related Legis | 321 |
9 | 326 |
Atomic Energy Act of 1954 | 331 |
Three Mile Island March 1979 | 338 |
Alvin M Weinberg A Nuclear Power Advocate Reflects | 349 |
Afterword | 357 |
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