| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Introduction -- The atomic prophecy -- Brahms and bombs on the atomic frontier -- At work in the atomic beehive -- We didn't exactly live in a democracy -- From Hiroshima to normalization -- Happy memories under the mushroom cloud -- Manhattan Project time machine -- Atomic snapshots -- Longing for the bomb. |
| Summary |
"Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the U.S. government in the 1940s. Its workers labored at a breakneck pace, most aware only that their jobs were helping 'the war effort.' The city has experienced the entire lifespan of the Atomic Age, from the fevered wartime enrichment of the uranium that fueled Little Boy, through a brief period of atomic utopianism after World War II when it began to brand itself as 'The Atomic City, ' to the anxieties of the Cold War, to the contradictory contemporary period of nuclear unease and atomic nostalgia. Oak Ridge's story deepens our understanding of the complex relationship between America and its bombs. Blending historiography and ethnography, Lindsey Freeman shows how a once-secret city is visibly caught in an uncertain present, no longer what it was historically yet still clinging to the hope of a nuclear future. It is a place where history, memory, and myth compete and conspire to tell the story of America's atomic past and to explain the nuclear present"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
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Manhattan Project (U.S.) |
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History. |
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- History -- 20th century.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
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Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture. |
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United States. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge.
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Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Atomic bomb -- Social aspects. |
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Atomic bomb. |
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Official secrets -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Official secrets. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Freeman, Lindsey A. Longing for the bomb. First edition. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015] (DLC) 2014038124 |
| ISBN |
9781469623177 (electronic book) |
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146962317X (electronic book) |
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1469622378 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781469622378 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1469622386 (print) |
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9781469622385 (print) |
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9781469622378 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781469622385 |
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