Kuuntele missä ja milloin haluat

Astu tarinoiden maailmaan

  • Pohjoismaiden suosituin ääni- ja e-kirjapalvelu
  • Uppoudu suureen valikoimaan äänikirjoja, e-kirjoja ja podcasteja
  • Storytel Original -sisältöjä yksinoikeudella
  • Ei sitoutumisaikaa
Lunasta tarjous
NO - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

Kieli
Englanti
Format
Kategoria

Historia

“Groundbreaking . . . Wellerstein peels back the layers of the nuclear onion to reveal a rich debate about what should be kept secret and why.” —Nature

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present.

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 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.

“Wellerstein examines the health of democracy in the face of big science, big government, and big weapons.” ―Science

© 2024 The University of Chicago Press (E-kirja): 9780226020419

Julkaisupäivä

E-kirja: 31. toukokuuta 2024

Saattaisit pitää myös näistä

  1. Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller Gregg Herken
  2. The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment that Red John W. Dean
  3. In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist S. S. Schweber
  4. To America Stephen E. Ambrose
  5. Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness David Gessner
  6. The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights Dorothy Wickenden
  7. Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States Alex Wellerstein
  8. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World Lesley M.M. Blume
  9. The End of White Christian America Robert P. Jones
  10. The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat Bob Woodward
  11. We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy Kliph Nesteroff
  12. Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History Joe Navarro
  13. Disney's Land Richard Snow
  14. The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War Benn Steil
  15. The Final Days Bob Woodward
  16. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us Brian Klaas
  17. The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will Kenneth R. Miller
  18. Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam
  19. The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson Alex Zakaras
  20. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Walter Isaacson
  21. The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 Lawrence P. Jackson
  22. Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe Vladimir Tismaneanu
  23. War and Human Nature Stephen Peter Rosen
  24. The Dark Frontier: Mapping the Edges of the Universe Dirk Fallon
  25. Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car Alex Davies
  26. The Berlin Project Gregory Benford
  27. Disturbing the Solar System: Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions Alan E. Rubin
  28. To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Determines the Fate of the Superpowers Bruce Jones
  29. The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture Glen Weldon
  30. Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death Adrian Owen
  31. The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease Charles Kenny
  32. Magic Lessons: A Prequel to Practical Magic Alice Hoffman

Valitse tilausmalli

  • Yli miljoona tarinaa

  • Suosituksia juuri sinulle

  • Uusia Storytel Originals + eksklusiivisia sisältöjä kuukausittain

  • Turvallinen Kids Mode

  • Ei sitoutumisaikaa

Standard

Sinulle joka kuuntelet säännöllisesti.

16.99 € /kuukausi
  • 1 käyttäjätili

  • 50 tuntia/kuukausi

  • Ei sitoutumisaikaa

Kokeile 60 päivää ilmaiseksi
Suosituin

Premium

Sinulle joka kuuntelet ja luet usein.

19.99 € /kuukausi
  • 1 käyttäjätili

  • 100 tuntia/kuukausi

  • Ei sitoutumisaikaa

Lunasta tarjous

Unlimited

Sinulle joka haluat rajattomasti tarinoita.

24.99 € /kuukausi
  • 1 käyttäjätili

  • Kuuntele ja lue rajattomasti

  • Ei sitoutumisaikaa

Kokeile 7 päivää ilmaiseksi

Family

Kun haluat jakaa tarinoita perheen kanssa.

Alkaen 26.99 €/kuukausi
  • 2-6 tiliä

  • 100 tuntia/kk jokaiselle käyttäjälle

  • Ei sitoutumisaikaa

2 käyttäjätiliä

26.99 € /kuukausi
Kokeile 7 päivää ilmaiseksi

Flex

Sinulle joka kuuntelet vähemmän.

9.99 € /kuukausi
  • 1 käyttäjätili

  • 20 tuntia/kuukausi

  • Säästä käyttämättömät tunnit, max 20h

  • Ei sitoutumisaikaa

Kokeile 7 päivää ilmaiseksi