| Contents |
Introduction: Si vis pacem, para bellum [If you want peace, -- prepare for war] -- Stop "play[ing] pattycake with the whole issue": citizen calls for civil defense -- "Between the devil and the deep": civil defense and the early Cold War political landscape -- The man in the white lab coat: the uses of scientists and scientific authority -- The fallout from fallout: the peacetime threat -- Atomic America: the expert public and nuclear dissent -- Conclusion: Renouncing the nuclear in nuclear citizenship. |
| Abstract |
"Examines how American civic life and ideas about citizenship changed in response to the threat of nuclear attack in the early years of the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Robey, Sarah E., 1986- Atomic Americans. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501762116 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021019755 |
| ISBN | 9781501762093 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1501762095 |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
