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The Atomic Age (Winter 2020)

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    [14] March 5 - Nuclear politics

    • [14] March 5 - Nuclear politics

      [14] March 5 - Nuclear politics

      Assigned reading:

      Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash — The First Ten Years (1967) (including the Russell-Einstein manifesto)

      Jessica Wang, "Scientists and the problem of the public in postwar America, 1945-1960," Osiris 17 (2002): 323-347.

      Alexei Kojevnikov, "Dialogues about knowledge and power in totalitarian political culture," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 30 (1999): 227-247. (Move quickly to the section on the postwar period, p. 239.)

      Further reading:

      "After Pugwash: The Soviet reaction," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists no. 9 (1957): 314-317.

      Eugene Rabinowitch, "The Third Pugwash Conference," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists no. 9 (1958): 338-340.

      Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse, eds., Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy: The Pugwash Conferences on Science and Worlds Affairs in the Early Cold War (2019). 

      The Pugwash Conferences and the Global Cold War Scientists, Transnational Networks, and the Complexity of Nuclear Histories, special issue of Cold War Studies (2018).

      Gerson S. Sher, From Pugwash to Putin: A Critical History of US-Soviet Scientific Cooperation (2019). [338.9/26 SHE]

      Kevles, The Physicists, chaps. 21–23.

      John Gaddis, et al., eds., Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy since 1945 (1999).

      Hoffmann György, "A Pugwash-mozgalom egy évtizede," Akadémiai Értesítő 75 (1968): 374-381.

      • Rotblat 1967 Single File
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      • [1] January 7 - The international political economy of radium
      • [2] January 9 - Nuclear migrations: Central European linkages
      • [3] January 14 - Paths to nuclear fission
      • [4] January 16 - The scale of the Manhattan Project, or, Why Hitler didn't get the Bomb
      • [5] January 21 - Moral economies of bombmaking
      • [6] January 23 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
      • [7] January 28 - How did the atomic bomb become an unconventional weapon?
      • [8] January 30 - The Soviet bomb and the second atomic age
      • [9] January 31 - Beyond spycraft: Knowledge of the enemy
      • [10] February 20 - Why build the hydrogen bomb?
      • [11] February 25 - Nuclear spaces: Hanford
      • [12] February 27 - Nuclear spaces: Cheliabinsk
      • [13] March 3 - Jáchymov/Joachimsthal, the uranium industry, and transnational history
      • [14] March 5 - Nuclear politics
      • [15] March 10 - Life atomic
      • [16] March 12 - Atoms for peace
      • [17] March 17 - Atomic millenialism: Learning to love the Bomb
      • [18] March 17 - Atomic millennialism (II)
      • [19] March 19 - Cold War science diplomacy
      • [20] March 24 - The International Atomic Energy Agency
      • [21] March 26 - Mutually Assured Deconstruction
      • [22] March 31 - Making history
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