Brian Balogh, Balogh Brian

Chain Reaction

Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945 1975

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Produktbeschreibung

Seeks to explain how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II and why their authority declined in the 1970s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780521457361
• ISBN-10: 052145736X
• Artikelnr.: 22344405

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Professionalisation and politics in twentieth-century
America: from fission to fusion
2. The promise of the proministrative state: nuclear experts and national politics, 1945-1947
3. Forging an iron triangle: the politics of verisimilitude
4. Triangulating demand: the AEC's first decade of commercialisation
5. The centrifugal push of expertise: reactor safety, 1947-1960
6. The magnetic pull of professional disciplines, issue networks and local government
7. Nuclear experts on top, not on tap: mainstreaming expertise, 1957-1970
8. Nuclear experts everywhere: the challenge to nuclear power, 1960-1975
9. Conclusion: harnessing political chain reactions
Notes
Bibliography
Index.