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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"atomic bomb"”.
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Britain and the atomic bomb: MAUD to Nagasaki.
… Report had on accelerating the United States atomic programme. I introduce the main British scientists here . In chapter two I focus on diplomacy between Britain and the United States in the period up to the Quebec Agreement. The two countries had their own atomic programmes at this stage and …
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Bombs, Bikinis, and Godzilla: America's Fear and Fascination of the Atomic Bomb as Evidenced Through Popular Media, 1946-1962.
… middle class Americans experienced towards the atomic bomb during the nineteen forties to early nineteen sixties by examining the popular culture that they produced and consumed. These Americans described the bomb as being an object of beauty, a powerful savior, an object of prosperity, and a …
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Creature Features and Consensus: Genre Fiction's Critique of Postwar Atomic Technology
Atomic paranoia is generally attributed to the postwar affluence of the United States, diplomatic tensions with the Soviet Union, and the adjustment to extreme scientific progress. However this research project will reveal how "nuclear terror" was the product of a specific historical event, and the …
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Doctoral thesis recital (double bass)
… -- Oh Lord, please don't let them drop that atomic bomb on me! / Charles Mingus -- One / James Hatfield-Lars Ulrich -- Alabama / John Coltrane -- What's going on? / Marvin Gaye.
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The Children's Hair Turned White (Original play)
… people who witnessed the detonation of the first atomic bomb in 1945. The play deals with the long term effects of radiation exposure, with the issues of private versus public responsibility, while at the same time being a love story. As the characters (Webb, Ellen, Sage, Thorn, and Frosty) work …
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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction, the Urakami Catholics, and Atomic Memory, 1945-1970
… the reconstruction of Nagasaki City after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945 by concentrating on politics and religion. It follows the various people and groups who contributed to the city's rise from the ashes and shaped its image in Japan and the world. In contrast to Hiroshima, Nagasaki …
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The Last Frontier; or, Going Critical; or, Nuclear Deference in Las Vegas
… attention paid to nuclear issues, the atomic bomb’s impact on humanity’s psyche, its behaviors, and its products has been covered in a broad range of fields, and its significance is all but a truism. In studies of post-World War II American literature, the bomb is often taken as a given …
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Luis Hernández: la poesía como ciencia de la vida
… of Einstein’s scientific work, of which the atomic bomb is the most controversial symbol. Finally, in the third chapter I link the image of Faust (the literary character) to German scientists during the 20th century. Starting in his first poetry notebooks the Peruvian poet talks about his …
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The Bioterrorist Threat to the United States and Israel
… of tomorrow may rival the impact of an atomic bomb. This thesis analyzes that threat and examines options for dealing with it.
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Addressing the risks of diagnostic radiology : what should be done about the increasing use of computed tomography in the United States
… (LNT) model. Epidemiological evidence from atomic bomb survivors provides some understanding of the risk of low doses of radiation, but not on the order of doses from typical CT procedures. This paper explores the evidence of the risk of low doses of radiation and discusses some of the …
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An evaluation of theories concerning the health effects of low-dose radiation exposures
… interpretation of the life span study (LSS) of atomic bomb survivors in Japan. However, while this pattern is undisputed at high doses, this linear extrapolation of risk to low doses is challenged by many recent experiments involving cell mechanisms and animal models, and there is also high …
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DIDATTICA DELLA FISICA NUCLEARE NELLA SCUOLA SECONDARIA DI SECONDO GRADO: PROGETTAZIONE, ESPERIENZE SUL CAMPO, CONTENUTI TRANSDISCIPLINARI E RECEPIMENTO NORMATIVO.
… the events that led to the construction of the atomic bomb and its consequences were retraced with a view to promoting a culture of disarmament and active citizenship. Based on the results obtained in all these nuclear physics teaching activities in high schools, collaborations were established …
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The Philosopher's Plutonium Stone: the Dounreay Fast reactor and the fall of Britain's Atomic Empire
… was almost exclusively on the physics of the atomic bomb, whilst the United States built a substantial industrial infrastructure laying the basis for a nuclear industry. Post war the US refused to share nuclear secrets and when British government decided to push ahead with building its …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
… of the Cold War. After the development of the atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project generation of physicists posed a series of troubling ethical questions: To what extent are scientists responsible for the military applications of their work? What are the political obligations of technical …
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Making Victims: History, Memory, and Literature In Japan's Post-War Social Imaginary
… of many people. In Japan, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the specific terms of defeat, and the adjustment between pre and post-war, massively affected the social imaginary of the nation. This paper seeks to examine the ways in which Japanese people were forced to re-identify what it meant to …
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Investigating the Effects of Particle Radiation Exposure on Lung Carcinogenesis
… by the epidemiological data obtained from atomic bomb survivors and uranium mine workers. The lung has a large surface area which makes it a prominent target for radiation exposure making it susceptible to radiation-induced cancer. Recently particle radiation therapy such as the use of …
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Living in the shadow: Britain and the USSR’s nuclear weapon delivery systems 1949-62
… efforts against the Soviet Union’s nuclear bombers and long-range nuclear ballistic missiles during the period 1949 until 1962. It also analyses the serious intelligence collection problems that were encountered concerning this topic and how successful Britain’s intelligence efforts were in …
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HOW COMMUNICATION AND CONFIRMATORY STRATEGIES AFFECT THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
… the structure of DNA and developed the atomic bomb. Experimental studies of group problem-solving have compared the performance of interacting groups with that of concocted groups composed of an equal number of individuals working separately. When there is a single, right answer to a …
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Nuclear Family
… the lives of those who were ancillary to the bomb itself and its repercussions. I use my own family as a lens to explore the issues surrounding this universally important and ongoing historical event.</p>
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