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Format: 549 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.

ISBN: 978-0-226-02038-9

Content: "Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-226-02041-9

Language: English

Keywords: Kernwaffe ; Geheimhaltung ; Militärpolitik

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Format: 549 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.

ISBN: 978-0-226-02038-9

Content: "Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-226-02041-9

Language: English

Keywords: Kernwaffe ; Geheimhaltung ; Militärpolitik ; Historische Darstellung

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Format: 1 online resource (558 pages) , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9780226020419

Content: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Terrible Inhibition of the Atom -- Part I. The Birth of Nuclear Secrecy -- Chapter 1: The Road to Secrecy: Chain Reactions, 1939-1942 -- 1.1 The fears of fission -- 1.2 From self-censorship to government control -- 1.3 Absolute secrecy -- Chapter 2: The "Best-Kept Secret of the War": The Manhattan Project, 1942-1945 -- 2.1 The heart of security -- 2.2 Leaks, rumors, and spies -- 2.3 Avoiding accountability -- 2.4 The problem of secrecy -- Chapter 3: Preparing for "Publicity Day": A Wartime Secret Revealed, 1944-1945 -- 3.1 The first history of the atomic bomb -- 3.2 Press releases, public relations, and purple prose -- 3.3 Secrecy from publicity -- Part II. The Cold War Nuclear Secrecy Regime -- Chapter 4: The Struggle for Postwar Control, 1944-1947 -- 4.1 Wartime plans for postwar control -- 4.2 "Restricted Data" and the Atomic Energy Act -- 4.3 Oppenheimer's anti-secrecy gambits -- Chapter 5: "Information Control" and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1950 -- 5.1 The education of David Lilienthal -- 5.2 The "thrashing" of reform -- 5.3 Three shocks -- Chapter 6: Peaceful Atoms, Dangerous Scientists: The Paradoxes of Cold War Secrecy, 1950-1969 -- 6.1 The H-bomb's silence and roar -- 6.2 Dangerous minds -- 6.3 Making atoms peaceful and profitable -- Part III. Challenges to Nuclear Secrecy -- Chapter 7: Unrestricted Data: New Challenges to the Cold War Secrecy Regime, 1964-1978 -- 7.1 The centrifuge conundrum -- 7.2 The perils of "peaceful" fusion -- 7.3 Atoms for terror -- Chapter 8: Secret Seeking: Anti-Secrecy at the End of the Cold War, 1978-1991 -- 8.1 Drawing the H-bomb -- 8.2 The "dream case": The Progressive v. The United States -- 8.3 Open-source intelligence in a suspicious age -- Chapter 9: Nuclear Secrecy and Openness after the Cold War -- Conclusion: The Past and Future of Nuclear Secrecy.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226020389

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wellerstein, Alex Restricted data Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 ISBN 9780226020389

Language: English

Subjects: History

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Format: 1 online resource (448 p.) : , 2 b/w illus.

ISBN: 9780691195292

Content: A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The Age of Hiroshima traces these complex legacies, exploring how the meanings of Hiroshima have reverberated across the decades and around the world.Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry bring together leading scholars from disciplines ranging from international relations and political theory to cultural history and science and technology studies, who together provide new perspectives on Hiroshima as both a historical event and a cultural phenomenon. As an event, Hiroshima emerges in the flow of decisions and hard choices surrounding the bombing and its aftermath. As a phenomenon, it marked a revolution in science, politics, and the human imagination-the end of one age and the dawn of another.The Age of Hiroshima reveals how the bombing of Hiroshima gave rise to new conceptions of our world and its precarious interconnectedness, and how we continue to live in its dangerous shadow today.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , 1. Introduction: Hiroshima's Legacies / , Part I. Decisions and Choices -- , 2. The Atom Bomb as Policy Maker: FDR and the Road Not Taken / , 3. The Kyoto Misconception: What Truman Knew, and Didn't Know, about Hiroshima / , 4. "When You Have to Deal with a Beast": Race, Ideology, and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb / , 5. Racing toward Armageddon? Soviet Views of Strategic Nuclear War, 1955-1972 / , 6. The Evolution of Japanese Politics and Diplomacy under the Long Shadows of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1974-1991 / , Part II. Movements and Resistances -- , 7. The Bandung Conference and the Origins of Japan's Atoms for Peace Aid Program for Asian Countries / , 8. India in the Early Nuclear Age / , 9. The Unnecessary Option to Go Nuclear: Japan's Nonnuclear Policy in an Era of Uncertainty, 1950s-1960s / , 10. Nuclear Revolution and Hegemonic Hierarchies: How Global Hiroshima Played Out in South America / , 11. Remembering War, Forgetting Hiroshima: "Euroshima" and the West German Anti-Nuclear Weapons Movements in the Cold Wa / , 12. Hiroshima, Nanjing, and Yasukuni: Contending Discourses on the Second World War in Japan / , Part III. Revolutions and Transformations -- , 13. The End of the Beginning: China and the Consolidation of the Nuclear Revolution / , 14. Data, Discourse, and Disruption: Radiation Effects and Nuclear Orders / , 15. Nuclear Harms and Global Disarmament / , 16. The Legacy of the Nuclear Taboo in the Twenty-First Century / , 17. History and the Unanswered Questions of the Nuclear Age: Reflections on Assumptions, Uncertainty, and Method in Nuclear Studies / , Notes -- , List of Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780691195292

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195292

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195292

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Format: 549 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme

ISBN: 9780226020389

Content: The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible. The totalizing scientific secrecy that the atomic bomb appeared to demand was new, unusual, and very nearly unprecedented. It was foreign to American science and American democracy – and potentially incompatible with both. From the beginning, this secrecy was controversial, and it was always contested. The atomic bomb was not merely the application of science to war, but the result of decades of investment in scientific education, infrastructure, and global collaboration. If secrecy became the norm, how would science – or democracy – survive? Drawing on troves of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time through the author’s efforts, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early twenty-first century. A compelling history of powerful ideas at war, it tells a story that feels distinctly American: rich, sprawling, and built on the conflict between high-minded idealism and ugly, fearful power.

Note: Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 507-528 , Enthält ein Register

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226020419

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Wellerstein, Alex Restricted data Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 ISBN 9780226020419

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Wellerstein, Alex Restricted Data Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021 ISBN 9780226020419

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: USA ; Kernwaffe ; Geheimhaltung ; Militärpolitik ; Geschichte 1939-2000

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226020419.001.0001

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Format: 549 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9780226020389

Language: English

Keywords: Historische Darstellung