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Author:   Alex Wellerstein
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
ISBN:  

9780226020389

ISBN 10:   022602038
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   09 April 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The terrible inhibition of the atom Part I. The Birth of Nuclear Secrecy 1-The road to secrecy: Chain reactions, 1939-1942 2-The best-kept secret of the war : The Manhattan Project, 1942-1945 3-Preparing for Publicity Day : A wartime secret revealed, 1944-1945 Part II. The Cold War Nuclear Secrecy Regime 4-The struggle for postwar control, 1944-1947 5- Information control and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1950 6-Peaceful atoms, dangerous scientists: The paradoxes of Cold War secrecy, 1950-1969 Part III. Challenges to Nuclear Secrecy 7-Unrestricted data: New challenges to the Cold War secrecy regime, 1964-1978 8-Secret seeking: Anti-secrecy at the end of the Cold War, 1978-1991 9-Nuclear secrecy and openness after the Cold War Conclusion: The past and future of nuclear secrecy Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Archival sources and abbreviations Articles Books and monographs Index

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This book tackles a big and important subject--nuclear secrecy--and illuminates its history with a wealth of new detail. Wellerstein provides a long, sweeping overview of secrecy in the nuclear age, tracking its evolution from the pre-World War II discovery of fission to the present. He surveys a vital topic through the mastery of difficult archival sources and assembles a coherent, compelling narrative. --Peter Westwick, author of Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft

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Alex Wellerstein is assistant professor of science and technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He is the creator of the online nuclear weapons simulator NUKEMAP.

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