[16] March 12 - Atoms for peace
Assigned reading:
Frank Tinsley, "Atomic planes are closer than you think," Mechanix Illustrated (August 1955). (Just for fun, no need to spend much time on this.)
Sonja D. Schmid, "Celebrating tomorrow today: The peaceful atom on display in the Soviet Union," Social Studies of Science 36 (2006): 331-365.
Individual assignments (choose ONE according to language preference):
"Press release, Atoms for Peace speech, December 8, 1953," Eisenhower Presidential Library; also reproduced here.
John Cockcroft, "The future of atomic energy," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1955): 285-288.
A. Hrynkiewicz, "Konferencja Międzynarodowa w Genewie poświęcona pokojowym zastosowaniom energii atomowej," Postępy Fizyki 6 no. 6 (1955): 662-674. [Click through to the volume and number; the PDF link apparently does not work, so you will have to use the DJVU reader.]
Eugene Rabinowitch, "International cooperation of atomic scientists," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 12 (February 1956): 34-37, 61.
Pál Lénárd, "Beszámoló az atomenergia békés felhasználásával kapcsolatban rendezett genfi nemzetközi értekezletről," Tarsadalmi Szemle 10 no. 10 (1955): 139-145.
Ferd. Herčík, "Zpráva o mezinárodní konferenci pro mírové vyuzití atomové energie v Zeneve," Casopís Lékar̆ů C̆eských 95 (1956): 105-108.
V. A. Leshkovtsev, "Сессия Академии наук СССР по мирному использованию атомной энергии," Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk 57 (1955): 503-517.
Werner Kliefoth, "Nachdenkliches zur Atomkonferenz," Physikalische Blätter 10 (1955): 442-444.
Paul A. Ladame, "L'Esprit de Genève," La Liberté (9 August 1955).
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Further reading:
Spencer Weart, Nuclear Fear, chapter 8.
John Krige, "Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism, and Scientific Intelligence," Osiris 21 (2006): 161-181.
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, "Exorcising Ghosts in the Age of Automation: United Nations Experts and Atoms for Peace," Technology and Culture 47 (2006): 734-756.
Sonja Schmid, "Nuclear colonization? Soviet technopolitics in the second world," in G. Hecht, ed., Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War (2011), 125-154.
Stefano Salvia, "Embattled Cooperation(s): Peaceful Atoms, Pacifist Physicists, and Partisans of Peace in the Early Cold War (1947–1957)," Perspectives in Physics 21 (2019): 43-62.