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Canaday, a poet and playwright who has been a Watson Fellow and a Starbuck Fellow in Poetry at Boston University, analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after WWII, including Niels Bohr's "The Quantum Postulate"; the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientist's descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard's postwar novella, The Voice of the Dolphins. He looks at physicists' use of figurative language in the development of quantum theory, and examines the role played by the rhetorics of exploration and religion in the construction of the Los Alamos community. Includes bandw historical photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

The Nuclear Muse

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  • Author : John Canaday
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Genre : History
  • Total Pages : 340 pages
  • ISBN : 9780299168544
  • PDF File Size : 40,5 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 5/5 from 1 reviews

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The Nuclear Muse

The Nuclear Muse
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • File Size : 37,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 25 June 2024
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Canaday, a poet and playwright who has been a Watson Fellow and a Starbuck Fellow in Poetry at Boston University, analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during,

Nuclear First Strike

Nuclear First Strike
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • File Size : 34,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 07 February 2006
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This provocative and timely work examines various scenarios in which the deployment of nuclear weapons could occur, the probable consequences of such an escalation, the likely world reactions, and the

Nuclear Reactions

Nuclear Reactions
  • Publisher : Unknown Publisher
  • File Size : 45,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 April 2021
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Nuclear Reactions analyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign

The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution

The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • File Size : 43,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 June 2020
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Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protected by these fearsome weapons can stop competing so intensely

Nuclear Summer

Nuclear Summer
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • File Size : 26,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 March 2018
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When thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so

The Nuclear Borderlands

The Nuclear Borderlands
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • File Size : 53,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 24 March 2020
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An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bomb In The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the

The Nuclear Spies

The Nuclear Spies
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • File Size : 39,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 September 2019
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Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International

Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War

Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • File Size : 29,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 January 2011
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Ranging across fiction and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War explores how writers, thinkers, and filmmakers have tackled the question: Are nuclear weapons

A Nuclear Refrain

A Nuclear Refrain
  • Publisher : punctum books
  • File Size : 41,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 December 2020
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"A Nuclear Refrain is a spatial fiction that critiques the policy of nuclear deterrence, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, and the UK's decision to replace its Vanguard submarines, so-called

Atomic Women

Atomic Women
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • File Size : 39,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 May 2020
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Bomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II. They were leaning