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Nuclear weapons information, American -- Access control.
Defense information, Classified -- United States.
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Wellerstein, Alex.
Nuclear weapons information, American -- Access control.
Defense information, Classified -- United States.
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Restricted
data
: the
history
of
nuclear
secrecy
in the
United
States
/ Alex Wellerstein.
by
Wellerstein, Alex.
The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Call #:
623.45119 W448r
Subjects
Nuclear
weapons information, American -- Access control.
Defense information, Classified --
United
States
.
ISBN:
9780226020389 (hc)
Description:
549 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The first full
history
of US
nuclear
secrecy
, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in
secrecy
. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of
nuclear
information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible. The totalizing scientific
secrecy
that the atomic bomb appeared to demand was new, unusual, and very nearly unprecedented. It was foreign to American science and American democracy -- and potentially incompatible with both. From the beginning, this
secrecy
was controversial, and it was always contested. The atomic bomb was not merely the application of science to war, but the result of decades of investment in scientific education, infrastructure, and global collaboration. If
secrecy
became the norm, how would science survive? Drawing on troves of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time through the author’s efforts,
Restricted
Data
traces the complex evolution of the US
nuclear
secrecy
regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early twenty-first century. A compelling
history
of powerful ideas at war, it tells a story that feels distinctly American: rich, sprawling, and built on the conflict between high-minded idealism and ugly, fearful power."--Publisher.
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