Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Foreword: Postwar America’s Nuclear Paradox xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction: Nature and the Nuclear Consensus in Postwar America 1
7. Part 1: First Reactions
8. Introduction 21
9. Leslie Groves, Report on the Trinity Test, 1945 23
10. Harry S. Truman, White House Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945 28
11. Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud, 1945 32
12. Joseph H. Willits, “Social Adjustments to Atomic Energy,” 1946 34
13. Headline Comics, Atomic Man, 1946 39
14. Arthur H. Compton, “The Atomic Crusade and Its Social Implications,” 1947 41
15. H. M. Parker, “Speculations on Long-Range Waste Disposal Hazards,” 1948 45
16. General Advisory Committee Reports on Building the H-Bomb, 1949 49
17. Lewis L. Strauss to Harry S. Truman, 1949 54
18. Part 2: Building Consensus
19. Introduction 57
20. “National Security Council Resolution 68,” 1950 59
21. Federal Civil Defense Administration, This Is Civil Defense, 1951 65
22. Federal Civil Defense Administration, Women in Civil Defense, 1952 69
23. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy,” 1953 74
24. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, “What does Atomic Energy really mean to you?” 1953 79
25. Lewis L. Strauss, “My Faith in the Atomic Future,” 1955 81
26. Heinz Haber, The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom, 1956 86
27. Bureau of Public Roads, A Preliminary Report on Highway Needs for Civil Defense, 1956 93
28. Walter Reuther, Atoms for Peace: A Separate Opinion, 1956 96
29. Part 3: Challenging Consensus
30. Introduction 101
31. Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, “The Russell-Einstein Manifesto,” 1955 103
32. Roger Revelle and Milner B. Schaefer, “General Considerations Concerning the Ocean as a Receptacle for Artificially Radioactive Materials,” 1957 107
33. Atomic Energy Commission, Atomic Tests in Nevada, 1957 111
34. National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, “We Are Facing a Danger Unlike Any Danger That Has Ever Existed,” 1957 114
35. Atomic Energy Commission, Atoms for Peace U.S.A., 1958 118
36. Barry Commoner, “The Fallout Problem,” 1958 123
37. Edward Teller, “The Plowshare Program,” 1959 128
38. Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization, Fallout Maps, 1959 132
39. Herman Kahn and H. H. Mitchell, The Postattack Environment, 1961 134
40. Margaret Mead, “Are Shelters the Answer?” 1961 140
41. Women Strike for Peace Milk Campaign, 1961 144
42. Atomic Energy Commission, Annual Report, 1962 149
43. John F. Kennedy, “Commencement Address at American University,” 1963 152
44. David E. Lilienthal, Change, Hope, and the Bomb, 1963 155
45. John F. Kennedy, “Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,” 1963 160
46. Part 4: Confronting Paradox
47. Introduction 163
48. Glenn T. Seaborg, Environmental Effects of Producing Electric Power, 1969 165
49. Minnesota Environmental Control Citizens Association, “A Nuclear Energy Gamble,” ca. 1969 171
50. Lenore Marshall, “The Nuclear Sword of Damocles,” 1971 175
51. Calvert Cliffs’ Coordinating Committee, Inc., v. United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1971 179
52. William R. Gould, “The State of the Atomic Industry,” 1974 183
53. Committee on the Present Danger, “Common Sense and the Common Danger,” 1976 188
54. Ralph W. Deuster, “Rx for the ‘Back’ of the Cycle,” 1976 192
55. Leonard Rifas, All-Atomic Comics, 1976 196
56. David N. Merrill, Nuclear Siting and Licensing Process, 1978 198
57. Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Madness, 1978 200
58. Abalone Alliance, “Declaration of Nuclear Resistance,” 1978 204
59. Report of the President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, 1979 207
60. Gloria Gregerson, Radiation Exposure and Compensation, 1981 211
61. Part 5: Renewal
62. Introduction 215
63. David E. Lilienthal, Atomic Energy: A New Start, 1980 217
64. Ronald Reagan, “Address to Members of the British Parliament,” 1982 221
65. Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 225
66. Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth, 1982 230
67. Ronald Reagan, “Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security,” 1983 234
68. Carl Sagan, “The Nuclear Winter,” 1983 238
69. Office of Technology Assessment, Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty, 1984 246
70. Campaign for a Nuclear Free Future, Disarmament Begins at Home, ca. 1984 251
71. Bernard Lown, “A Prescription for Hope,” 1985 255
72. Elizabeth Macias, High-Level Nuclear Waste Issues, 1987 259
73. Ronald Reagan, “Address to the 42nd Session of the United Nations,” 1987 263
74. Editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “A New Era,” 1991 267
75. Epilogue: The Nuclear Present
76. Introduction 271
77. David Albright, Kathryn Buehler, and Holly Higgins, “Bin Laden and the Bomb,” 2002 273
78. Allison M. MacFarlane, “Yucca Mountain and High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal,” 2006 277
79. Oregon Department of Energy, Hanford Cleanup: The First 20 Years, 2009 282
80. Mark Z. Jacobson, “Nuclear Power Is Too Risky,” 2010 288
81. President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, Report to the Secretary of Energy, 2012 291
82. Nuclear Energy Institute, “Nuclear Energy: Powering America’s Future,” 2013 296
83. Ken Caldeira, Kerry Emanuel, James Hansen, and Tom Wigley, “To Those Influencing Environmental Policy but Opposed to Nuclear Power,” 2013 300
84. Latuff Cartoons, Fukushima Cartoon, 2014 303
85. John Asafu-Adjaye et al., “An Ecomodernist Manifesto,” 2015 305
86. Index 311