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This Atom Bomb in Me
Engelsk Paperback
This Atom Bomb in Me
Engelsk Paperback

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This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a secret city during the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge enriched the uranium that powered Little Boy, the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The city was a major nuclear production site throughout the Cold War, adding something to each and every bomb in the United States arsenal. Even today, Oak Ridge contains the world''s largest supply of fissionable uranium.

The granddaughter of an atomic courier, Lindsey A. Freeman turns a critical yet nostalgic eye to the place where her family was sent as part of a covert government plan. Theirs was a city devoted to nuclear science within a larger America obsessed with its nuclear prowess. Through memories, mysterious photographs, and uncanny childhood toys, she shows how Reagan-era politics and nuclear culture irradiated the late twentieth century. Alternately tender and alarming, her book takes a Geiger counter to recent history, reading the half-life of the atomic past as it resonates in our tense nuclear present.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781503606890
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1503606899
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 feb 2019
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
128mm
Højde:
202mm
Forlag:
Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato:
12 feb 2019
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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