02588cam a2200373 c 4500 BV050927308 DE-604 20261027 t| 261026s2026 xx a||| bb|| 00||| eng d 9780674300354 hbk 9780674300354 DE-604 ger rda Else, Jon 1944- Verfasser (DE-588)1135939993 aut Frenchman Flat the rise and fall of atomic bombs Jon Else Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2026 viii, 454 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm illustrations http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/millus/ill The Ashes of Triumph -- The Magic Mountain -- The Ur-Test -- Old Man Mac Smith -- Flattened People -- A Bang Not a Whimper -- Sin -- Ocean on Fire -- Radioactive Stoves -- Just Another Weapon -- The Empty Core of the World -- The Vast Oceans of the Sky -- Godzilla's Birthday -- Exorcism -- Bravo -- What the Congressman Saw -- Downwinders -- Huff and Puff -- Blow Your House Down -- A Large Biological Specimen -- The Day After Priscilla -- SANE -- Mrs. Wilson -- Technically Sweet -- A Public Affairs Bugaboo -- Partly Cloudy with A-Bombs -- Who's Next? -- Kings of the Wild Frontier -- Plowshare -- Hard Rain -- Enough of This -- Thousands of Targets -- Going Underground -- Blast Doors -- A Walk in the Woods -- Strange Love -- The Nevada Experience -- Radiation Exposure Compensation -- Apocalypse in Kansas -- Tired Mountain Syndrome -- The Museum of Suicide -- Worth Defending -- The Lost City of Priscilla "Jon Else tells the dramatic story of the anti-nuclear testing movement. Spurred by footage of the 1957 "Priscilla" test at Frenchman Flat, Nevada, activists took up a newly urgent posture. Else explores the scientific, strategic, and industrial underpinnings of the testing regime, as well as Pricilla's lasting impact on political consciousness."-- Provided by publisher Atomic bomb / Nevada / Nevada National Security Site / Testing / History Cold War Nevada National Security Site (Nev.) / History Guerre froide Nevada Test Site (Nev.) / Histoire Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 9780674306950 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 9780674306967 oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-036267887 (DE-599)BVBBV050927308 eng DE-12 DE-188 355.8251190973 txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier