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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. 1 | First Reactions | 1 |
| 1 | "The Whole World Gasped" | 3 |
| Pt. 2 | Overture: The World-Government Movement | 27 |
| 2 | The Summons to Action | 29 |
| 3 | Atomic-Bomb Nightmares and World-Government Dreams | 33 |
| Pt. 3 | The Atomic Scientists: From Bomb-Makers to Political Sages | 47 |
| 4 | The Political Agenda of the Scientists' Movement | 49 |
| 5 | "To the Village Square": The Public Agenda of the Scientists' Movement | 59 |
| 6 | The Uses of Fear | 65 |
| 7 | Representative Text: One World or None | 76 |
| 8 | The Mixed Message of Bikini | 82 |
| 9 | The Scientists' Movement in Eclipse | 93 |
| Pt. 4 | Anodyne to Terror: Fantasies of a Techno-Atomic Utopia | 107 |
| 10 | Atomic Cars, Artificial Suns, Cancer-Curing Isotopes: The Search for a Silver Lining | 109 |
| 11 | Bright Dreams and Disturbing Realities: The Psychological Function of the Atomic-Utopia Visions | 122 |
| Pt. 5 | The Social Implications of Atomic Energy: Prophecies and Prescriptions | 131 |
| 12 | Optimistic Forecasts | 133 |
| 13 | Darker Social Visions | 141 |
| 14 | Experts and Ideologues Offer Their Prescriptions | 151 |
| 15 | Social Science into the Breach | 166 |
| Pt. 6 | The Crisis of Morals and Values | 179 |
| 16 | Justifications, Rationalizations, Evasions: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the American Conscience | 181 |
| 17 | "Victory for What?" - The Voice of the Minority | 196 |
| 18 | Atomic Weapons and Judeo-Christian Ethics: The Discourse Begins | 211 |
| 19 | Human Nature, Technological Man, the Apocalyptic Tradition | 230 |
| Pt. 7 | Culture and Consciousness in the Early Atomic Era | 241 |
| 20 | Words Fail: The Bomb and the Literary Imagination | 243 |
| 21 | Visions of the Atomic Future in Science Fiction and Speculative Fantasy | 257 |
| 22 | Second Thoughts About Prometheus: The Atomic Bomb and Attitudes Toward Science | 266 |
| 23 | Psychological Fallout: Consciousness and the Bomb | 275 |
| Pt. 8 | The End of the Beginning: Settling in for the Long Haul | 289 |
| 24 | Dagwood to the Rescue: The Campaign to Promote the "Peaceful Atom" | 291 |
| 25 | Secrecy and Soft Soap: Soothing Fears of the Bomb | 303 |
| 26 | The Reassuring Message of Civil Defense | 319 |
| 27 | 1949-1950: Embracing the Bomb | 334 |
| Epilogue: From the H-Bomb to Star Wars: The Continuing Cycles of Activism and Apathy | 352 | |
| Notes | 369 | |
| Index | 423 |
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