Philip L Cantelon

The American Atom

A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present, 1939-1984

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Produktbeschreibung

Debate over nuclear policy, whether about nuclear weapons or nuclear energy, most often focuses on issues of the present or the future. The documents collected in "The American Atom" remind us, however, that the issues involved have a past...We follow the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the 'father of the American bomb, ' thorough his letters, observations of those close to the Manhattan Project and testimony to the Atomic Energy Commission. President Dwight Eisenhower's 1953 'Atoms for Peace' speech demonstrates how far back calls for nuclear sanity go, and the listing of nuclear-weapons accidents shows how dangerous it may be to ignore those calls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780812213546
• ISBN-10: 0812213548
• Artikelnr.: 21690852

Autorenporträt

Philip L. Cantelon is President of History Associates, Inc. Richard G. Hewlett is Senior Vice President of History Associates, Inc., and former chief historian of the Atomic Energy Commission. Robert C. Williams is Professor of History, Dean of the Faculty, and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Davidson College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I THE NUCLEAR AGE: BACKGROUND AND VISIONS 1. Nuclear Energy: H. G. Wells's Vision
1914 2. Leo Szilard and the Discovery of Fission 3. The Szilard-Einstein Letter
August 2
1939 4. The Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
1940 5. The MAUD Report
1941 II THE MANHATTAN PROJECT 6. Letters of J. Robert Oppenheimer
1942-45 7. The Quebec Agreement
August 19
1943 8. Anglo-American Declaration of Trust
June 13
1944 9. Roosevelt-Churchill Hyde Park Aide-Memoire
September 19
1944 10. O. R. Frisch
Eyewitness Account of "Trinity" Test
July 1945 11. General Groves's Report on "Trinity
" July 18
1945 12. Truman-Stalin Conversation
Potsdam
July 24
1945 13. Military Policy Committee Minutes
May 5
1943 14. Stimson and the Interim Committee
May 1945 15. Interim Committee Minutes
May 31
1945 16. Science Panel: Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons
June 16
1945 17. Stimson and the Scientists' Concerns
June 26
1945 18. Chicago Scientists' Petition to the President
July 17
1945 19. White House Press Release on Hiroshima
August 6
1945 III ATOMIC ENERGY IN A POSTWAR WORLD 20. Henry Stimson to Harry S. Truman
September 11
1945 21. The McMahon Bill
December 20
1945 (Atomic Energy Act of 1946) 22. The Baruch Plan 23. "What Is the Atom's Industrial Future?" March 8
1947 24. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's ''Atoms for Peace" Address to the United Nations General Assembly 25. Excerpts from President Eisenhower's Press Conference
March 31
1954 IV THE HYDROGEN BOMB 26. "Political Implications of Detonation of Atomic Bomb by the U.S.S.R.
" Department of State
Policy Planning Staff PPS/58
August 16
1949 27. Statement by the President on Announcing the First Atomic Explosion in the USSR
September 23
1949 28. USAEC General Advisory Committee Minutes
October 28-30
1949 29. USAEC General Advisory Committee Report on the "Super
" October 30
1949 30. Lewis Strauss to Harry S. Truman
November 25
1949 31. Statement by the President on the Hydrogen Bomb
January 31
1950 32. Hans Bethe
Comments on the History of the H-bomb
1954 V THE OPPENHEIMER CASE 33. K. D. Nichols
General Manager
AEC
to J. R. Oppenheimer
December 23
1953 34. J. R. Oppenheimer to K. D. Nichols
March 4
1954 35. Testimony in the Matter of J
Robert Oppenheimer 36
Findings on the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer: K. D. Nichols to the USAEC
June 12
1954 37. Arthur Holly Compton to Gordon Gray
April 21
1954
"Evidence Regarding Loyalty of Robert Oppenheimer VI NUCLEAR TESTING AND THE TEST BAN 38. Announced Nuclear Tests
1945-52 39. Reported Nuclear Test Explosions
1945-68 40. "Civil Defense Faces New Perils
" Ralph E. Lapp
1954 41. Atomic Energy Commission Meeting 1376
May 21
1958 42. Atomic Energy Commission Meeting 1377
May 28
1958 43. W. K. Wyant
Jr.
''50
000 Baby Teeth
" The Nation
June 13
1959 44. Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere
in Outer Space
and Under Water
August 5
1963 45. Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests
July 3
1974 46. Protocol to the Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Reepublics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests
July 3
1937 VII DETERRENCE 47. Bernard Brodie
The Absolute Weapon
1946 48. John Foster Dulles on "Massive Retaliation
" 1954 49. Herman Kahn
On Thermonuclear War
1960 50. Robert McNamara and Counterforce "No Cities" Doctrine
1962 51. Presidential Directive 59
1980 52. President Ronald Reagan on Deterrence
November 23
1982 VI ARMS CONTROL 53. "Broken Arrows": Nuclear Weapons Accidents
1950-68 54. White House Statement on the Soviet Missile Sites in Cuba
October 26
1962 55
White House Statement on Soviet Proposals Relating to International Security
October 27
1962 56. Message to Chairman Khrushchev Calling for Removal of Soviet Missiles From Cuba
October 27
1962 57. Message in Reply to a Broadcast by Chairman Khrushchev on the Cuban Crisis
October 28
1962 58. Statement by the President Following the Soviet Decision to Withdraw Missiles from Cuba
October 28
1952 59. Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Regarding the Establishment of a Direct Communications Link
June 20
1963 (with Annex) 60. Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons
March 5
1970 61. Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the L... 62. Interim Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republi... 63. USA-USSR Agreement to Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War Outbreak
September 30
1972 64. Protocol to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Re... 65. Salt II Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... 66. U.S. Bishops' Pastoral Letter on War and Peace: A Summary 67. William P. Clark
National Security Council
to Archbishop Joseph L. Bernadin
Chairman of the N... IX NUCLEAR POWER 68. Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (selections) 69. Report of the AEC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards on the Fermi Nuclear Power Plant
195... 70. AFL-CIO Statement on Fermi
1956 71. Preliminary Report on Fuel Damage in Fermi Reactor
1966 72. Calved Cliffs Coordinating Committee versus U.S. Atomic Energy Committee
1971 73. Three Mile Island; Nuclear News Special Report
April 6
1979 X Afterword Index