Title Longing for the bomb : Oak Ridge and atomic nostalgia / Lindsey A. Freeman

Edition First edition Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Prologue -- 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- History -- 20th century Manhattan Project (U.S.) Oak Ridge National Laboratory Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century World War, 1939-1945 -- Tennessee -- Oak Ridge Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States -- History Official secrets -- United States -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Military -- Other. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. Atomic bomb -- Social aspects Manners and customs Official secrets Popular culture Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Oak Ridge (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century Tennessee -- Oak Ridge United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9798890845801 9781469622385 1469622386

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