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1 online resource (558 pages)
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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
