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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One First Reactions 1. “The Whole World Gasped” Part Two Overture: The World-Government Movement 2. The Summons to Action 3. Atomic-Bomb Nightmares and World-Government Dreams Part Three The Atomic Scientists: From Bomb-Makers to Political Sages 4. The Political Agenda of the Scientists’ Movement 5. “To the Village Square”: The Public Agenda of the Scientists’ Movement 6. The Uses of Fear 7. Representative Text: One World or None 8. The Mixed Message of Bikini 9. The Scientists’ Movement in Eclipse Part Four Anodyne to Terror: Fantasies of a Techno-Atomic Utopia 10. Atomic Cars, Artificial Suns, Cancer-Curing Isotopes: The Search for a Silver Lining 11. Bright Dreams and Disturbing Realities: The Psychological Function of the Atomic-Utopia Visions Part Five The Social Implications of Atomic Energy: Prophecies and Prescriptions 12. Optimistic Forecasts 13. Darker Social Visions 14. Experts and Ideologues Offer Their Prescriptions 15. Social Science into the Breach Part Six The Crisis of Morals and Values 16. Justifications, Rationalizations, Evasions: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the American Conscience 17. “Victory for What?”—The Voice of the Minority 18. Atomic Weapons and Judeo-Christian Ethics: The Discourse Begins 19. Human Nature, Technological Man, the Apocalyptic Tradition Part Seven Culture and Consciousness in the Early Atomic Era 20. Words Fail: The Bomb and the Literary Imagination 21. Visions of the Atomic Future in Science Fiction and Speculative Fantasy 22. Second Thoughts About Prometheus: The Atomic Bomb and Attitudes Toward Science 23. Psychological Fallout: Consciousness and the Bomb Part Eight The End of the Beginning: Settling in for the Long Haul 24. Dagwood to the Rescue: The Campaign to Promote the “Peaceful Atom” 25. Secrecy and Soft Soap: Soothing Fears of the Bomb 26. The Reassuring Message of Civil Defense 27. 1949–1950: Embracing the Bomb Epilogue: From the H-Bomb to Star Wars: The Continuing Cycles of Activism and Apathy Notes Index pages 17 85 155 309

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