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001 2014038124
003 DLC
005 20150710083538.0
008 140924s2015 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014038124
020 $a9781469622378 (paperback : alkaline paper)
020 $z9781469622385 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aF444.O3$bF74 2015
082 00 $a355.8/25119097309044$223
100 1 $aFreeman, Lindsey A.
245 10 $aLonging for the bomb :$bOak Ridge and atomic nostalgia /$cLindsey A. Freeman.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aChapel Hill :$bThe University of North Carolina Press,$c[2015]
300 $axv, 234 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
520 $a"Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the U.S. government in the 1940s. Its workers labored at a breakneck pace, most aware only that their jobs were helping 'the war effort.' The city has experienced the entire lifespan of the Atomic Age, from the fevered wartime enrichment of the uranium that fueled Little Boy, through a brief period of atomic utopianism after World War II when it began to brand itself as 'The Atomic City,' to the anxieties of the Cold War, to the contradictory contemporary period of nuclear unease and atomic nostalgia. Oak Ridge's story deepens our understanding of the complex relationship between America and its bombs. Blending historiography and ethnography, Lindsey Freeman shows how a once-secret city is visibly caught in an uncertain present, no longer what it was historically yet still clinging to the hope of a nuclear future. It is a place where history, memory, and myth compete and conspire to tell the story of America's atomic past and to explain the nuclear present"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aPrologue -- Introduction -- The atomic prophecy -- Brahms and bombs on the atomic frontier -- At work in the atomic beehive -- We didn't exactly live in a democracy -- From Hiroshima to normalization -- Happy memories under the mushroom cloud -- Manhattan Project time machine -- Atomic snapshots -- Longing for the bomb.
651 0 $aOak Ridge (Tenn.)$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aOak Ridge (Tenn.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.
610 20 $aOak Ridge National Laboratory$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aOfficial secrets$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAtomic bomb$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
610 20 $aManhattan Project (U.S.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zTennessee$zOak Ridge.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.