Ebook: Nuclear reactions: documenting American encounters with nuclear energy

Foreword: Postwar America's nuclear paradox / by Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction: Nature and the nuclear consensus in postwar America -- Part 1. Frst reactions. Report on the Trinity Test, 1945 / Leslie Groves ; White House Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima, 1945 / Harry S. Truman ; Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud, 1945 ; "Social adjustments to atomic energy," 1946 / Joseph H. Willits ; Headline comics, Atomic Man, 1946 ; "The atomic crusade and its social implications," 1947 / Arthur H. Compton ; "Speculations on long-range waste disposal hazards," 1948 / H. M. Parker ; General Advisory Committe reports on building the H-bomb, 1949 ; Lewis L. Strauss to Harry S. Truman, 1949 -- Part 2. Building consensus. "National Security Council Resolution 68," 1950 ; This is Civil Defense, 1951 / Federal Civil Defense Administration ; Women in Civil Defense, 1952 / Federal Civil Defense Administration ; "Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on peaceful uses of atomic energy," 1953 / Dwight D. Eisenhower ; "What does atomic energy really mean to you?" 1953 / Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation ; "My faith in the atomic future," 1955 / Lewis L. Strauss ; The Walt Disney story of our friend the atom, 1956 / Heinz Haber ; A preliminary report on highway needs for Civil Defense, 1956 / Bureau of Public Roads ; Atoms for peace : a separate opinion, 1956 / Walter Reuther -- Part 3. Challenging consensus. "The Russell-Einstein manifesto," 1955 / Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein ; "General considerations concerning the ocean as a receptacle for artificially radioactive materials," 1957 / Roger Revelle and Milner B. Schaefer ; Atomic tests in Nevada, 1957 / Atomic Energy Commission ; "We are facing a danger unlike any danger that has ever existed," 1957 / National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy ; Atoms for peace U.S.A., 1958 / Atomic Energy Commission ; "The fallout problem," 1958 / Barry Commoner ; "The Plowshare Program," 1959 / Edward Teller ; Fallout maps, 1959 / Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization ; The postattack environment, 1961 / Herman Kahn and H. H. Mitchell ; "Are shelters the answer?" 1961 / Margaret Mead ; Women Strike for Peace Milk Campaign, 1961 ; Annual report, 1962 / Atomic Energy Commission ; "Commencement address at American University," 1963 / John F. Kennedy ; Change, hope, and the bomb, 1963 / David E. Lilienthal ; "Address to the American people on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty," 1963 / John F. Kennedy --