Romancing The Atom

Author : Robert R. Johnson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313392795

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Romancing the Atom by Robert R. Johnson Pdf

Overview: This book presents a compelling account of atomic development over the last century that demonstrates how humans have repeatedly chosen to ignore the associated impacts for the sake of technological, scientific, military, and economic expediency. -- Draws from top-secret government and military documents from the history of atomic development, archival documents from the Library of Congress, and letters from Albert Einstein and other prominent scientists during the 1950s and 1960s. -- Presents chronological histories of events such as the displacement and relocation of the Bikini Islanders, uranium mines on Native American lands, and the cleanup of a secret uranium milling facility in a residential neighborhood in Oxford, Ohio. -- Contains various maps including radioactive cleanup sites in the United States and other parts of the world. -- Includes many photographs and illustrations that accompany the text. -- Provides a bibliography containing a significant collection of books, magazine articles, newspaper reports, movies, comics, government documents, and other related archival materials.

Author : Robert R. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313392801

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Romancing the Atom by Robert R. Johnson Pdf

This book presents a compelling account of atomic development over the last century that demonstrates how humans have repeatedly chosen to ignore the associated impacts for the sake of technological, scientific, military, and economic expediency. In 1945, Albert Einstein said, "The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind." This statement seems more valid today than ever. Romancing the Atom: Nuclear Infatuation from the Radium Girls to Fukushima presents compelling moments that clearly depict the folly and shortsightedness of our "atomic mindset" and shed light upon current issues of nuclear power, waste disposal, and weapons development. The book consists of ten nonfiction historical vignettes, including the women radium dial painters of the 1920s, the expulsion of the Bikini Island residents to create a massive "petri dish" for post-World War II bomb and radiation testing, the government-subsidized uranium rush of the 1950s and its effects on Native American communities, and the secret radioactive material development facilities in residential neighborhoods. In addition, the book includes original interviews of prominent historians, writers, and private citizens involved with these poignant stories. More information is available online at www.romancingtheatom.com.

Author : George E. McCarthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847685292

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Romancing Antiquity by George E. McCarthy Pdf

In this unique and comprehensive book, George McCarthy examines the influence of Greek philosophy, literature, arts, and politics on the development of twentieth-century German social thought. McCarthy demonstrates that the classical spirit vitalized thinkers such as Weber, Heidegger, Freud, Marcuse, Arendt, Gadamer, and Habermas. With the romancing of antiquity, they transformed their understanding of the modern self, political community, and Enlightenment rationality. By viewing contemporary social theory from the framework of the classical world, McCarthy argues, we are capable of thinking beyond the limits of modernity to new possibilities of human reason, science, beauty, and social justice.

Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812975208

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An Atomic Romance by Bobbie Ann Mason Pdf

This provocative, rollicking story is the much-anticipated new novel–the first in over a decade–from acclaimed author Bobbie Ann Mason. In An Atomic Romance we meet Reed Futrell, a sexy, thoughtful hero who grapples with radioactive contamination, a midlife crisis, and string theory–all while falling in love. Reed is an engineer at a uranium-enrichment plant near a riverside city in heartland America. He has deep roots in this community: He was raised there; his father worked at the very same plant before him. And it was here that Reed met, married, and then divorced his wife. Reed spends countless nights camping at a local wildlife preserve, gazing at the stars, fishing and hunting–that is, until deformed frogs are discovered at the site. Though his father was killed in a tragic accident at the atomic plant years ago, Reed stays on, proud to perform demanding and dangerous work for the benefit of the nation. As for the radioactive “incidents” he has endured, Reed prefers to think about other things–Hubble photographs of distant galaxies, Albert Einstein, his dog. Reed’s casual attitude toward danger infuriates his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Julia, as much as his quirky mind and muscular body intrigue her. Julia, a biologist, is truly Reed’s match–or maybe more than his match. They both are witty, curious, and fascinated by science. Indeed, their courtship began with banter about Stephen Hawking’s theories of space-time, and ever since it has been an up-and-down adventure of sexual attraction, intellectual game-playing, and long silences when Julia refuses to return Reed’s calls. When news reports reveal evidence of radioactive pollution in the land surrounding the plant, Reed and Julia’s relationship faces an unprecedented challenge. In An Atomic Romance, Bobbie Ann Mason delivers a brilliant novel set against a backdrop of atomic power: a love story between a motorcycle-riding loner and an independent, strong-minded biologist; between the peaceful present in a typical American community and the nation’s violent nuclear past; and, finally, between a good man and the work he takes pride in, though it may be putting his life in danger.

Author : Janet Farrell Brodie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496236555

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The First Atomic Bomb by Janet Farrell Brodie Pdf

On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world’s first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in south-central New Mexico. Immensely more powerful than any weapon the world had seen, the bomb’s effects on the surrounding and downwind communities of plants, animals, birds, and humans have lasted decades. In The First Atomic Bomb Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed—the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test—as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation. Concentrating on these ordinary people, laborers, ranchers, and Indigenous peoples who lived in the region and participated in the testing, Brodie corrects the lack of coverage in existing scholarship on the essential details and everyday experiences of this globally significant event. The First Atomic Bomb also covers the environmental preservation of the Trinity test site and compares it with the wide range of atomic sites now preserved independently or as part of the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Although the Trinity site became a significant node for testing the new weapons of the postwar United States, it is known today as an officially designated National Historic Landmark. Brodie presents a timely, important, and innovative study of an explosion that carries special historical weight in American memory.

Author : Traci Brynne Voyles
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452944494

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Wastelanding by Traci Brynne Voyles Pdf

Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S. nuclear weapons and energy programs. By 1942, mines on the reservation were the main source of uranium for the top-secret Manhattan Project. Today, the Navajo Nation is home to more than a thousand abandoned uranium sites. Radiation-related diseases are endemic, claiming the health and lives of former miners and nonminers alike. Traci Brynne Voyles argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism. Looking at discursive constructions of landscapes, she explores how environmental racism develops over time. For Voyles, the “wasteland,” where toxic materials are excavated, exploited, and dumped, is both a racial and a spatial signifier that renders an environment and the bodies that inhabit it pollutable. Because environmental inequality is inherent in the way industrialism operates, the wasteland is the “other” through which modern industrialism is established. In examining the history of wastelanding in Navajo country, Voyles provides “an environmental justice history” of uranium mining, revealing how just as “civilization” has been defined on and through “savagery,” environmental privilege is produced by portraying other landscapes as marginal, worthless, and pollutable.

Author : Lucy Jane Santos
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781643137490

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Half Lives by Lucy Jane Santos Pdf

The fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life. Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal. Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a desirable item – a present for a queen, a prize in a treasure hunt, a glow-in- the-dark dance costume – to its role as a supposed cure-all in everyday twentieth-century life, when medical practitioners and business people (reputable and otherwise) devised ingenious ways of commodifying the new wonder element, and enthusiastic customers welcomed their radioactive wares into their homes. Lucy Jane Santos—herself the proud owner of a formidable collection of radium beauty treatments—delves into the stories of these products and details the gradual downfall and discredit of the radium industry through the eyes of the people who bought, sold and eventually came to fear the once-fetishized substance. Half Lives is a new history of radium as part of a unique examination of the interplay between science and popular culture.

Author : Keith Gordon Irwin
Publisher : Viking Children's Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : UCAL:B4098868

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The Romance of Chemistry by Keith Gordon Irwin Pdf

International in scope, this book considers the contributions of chemists of all nations to welfare of all mankind.

Author : M. Jimmie Killingsworth,Jacqueline S. Palmer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781623496883

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Nuclear New Mexico by M. Jimmie Killingsworth,Jacqueline S. Palmer Pdf

The mountains, valleys, forests, and sands of 1940s New Mexico served as a picturesque backdrop to the dawn of the Atomic Age, the land’s natural beauty coexisting with secretive, nuclear development. Today, nuclear tourists and nature tourists travel a shared path through the state as the history of the bomb is commemorated at official sites, often alongside monuments to natural preservation: Trinity Site, bordered by the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Preserve; Los Alamos, wedged between Valles Caldera and Bandelier National Monument; and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, across from Carlsbad Caverns. More than just a glimpse into the history of the atomic bomb and the tourism it spawned within New Mexico, Nuclear New Mexico also examines the impact of nuclear testing within the rise of environmentalism. As readers explore New Mexico’s landscape and its history, they will recognize familiar uncertainties and concerns about their own special places on the planet as societies adapt to rapidly altered landscapes.

Author : Andrea Kunard,Carol Payne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773538610

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The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada by Andrea Kunard,Carol Payne Pdf

Reflecting the rich interdisciplinarity of contemporary photography studies, The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada is essential reading for anyone interested in Canadian visual culture."--Pub. desc.

Author : Mala Radhakrishnan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781458331922

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Atomic Romances, Molecular Dances by Mala Radhakrishnan Pdf

Chemistry comes to life in this illustrated collection of humorous poetry. Concepts from general, organic, inorganic, physical, and biological chemistry are explained through entertaining stories about the atoms and molecules experiencing them firsthand. Join atoms and molecules as they grapple with issues like finding love, making friends, and pursuing their dreams, all on the molecular level. This collection is perfect for scientists, undergraduate students, and science enthusiasts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1518 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Paint
ISBN : UOM:39015023912929

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Convention-at-home Daily by Anonim Pdf

Covers the conventions of the Federation of paint and varnish production clubs and of the National paint, varnish and lacquer association.

Author : William Sweet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003998924

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The Nuclear Age by William Sweet Pdf

Author : Eric M. Rogers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 791 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691151151

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Physics for the Inquiring Mind by Eric M. Rogers Pdf

In our scientific age an understanding of physics is part of a liberal education. Lawyers, bankers, governors, business heads, administrators, all wise educated people need a lasting understanding of physics so that they can enjoy those contacts with science and scientists that are part of our civilization both materially and intellectually. They need knowledge and understanding instead of the feelings, all too common, that physics is dark and mysterious and that physicists are a strange people with incomprehensible interests. Such a sense of understanding science and scientists can be gained neither from sermons on the beauty of science nor from the rigorous courses that colleges have offered for generations; when the headache clears away it leaves little but a confused sense of mystery. Nor is the need met by survey courses that offer a smorgasbord of tidbit--they give science a bad name as a compendium of information or formulas. The non-scientist needs a course of study that enables him to learn real science and make its own--with delight. For lasting benefits the intelligent non-scientist needs a course of study that enables him to learn genuine science carefully and then encourages him to think about it and use it. He needs a carefully selected framework of topics--not so many that learning becomes superficial and hurried; not so few that he misses the connected nature of scientific work and thinking. He must see how scientific knowledge is built up by building some scientific knowledge of his own, by reading and discussing and if possible by doing experiments himself. He must think his own way through some scientific arguments. He must form his own opinion, with guidance, concerning the parts played by experiment and theory; and he must be shown how to develop a taste for good theory. He must see several varieties of scientific method at work. And above all, he must think about science for himself and enjoy that. These are the things that this book encourages readers to gain, by their own study and thinking. Physics for the Inquiring Mind is a book for the inquiring mind of students in college and for other readers who want to grow in scientific wisdom, who want to know what physics really is.

Author : Stan G. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015076155574

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The Winged and Garlanded Nike by Stan G. Scott Pdf

A rollicking but provocative saga across three decades of the cold war.