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Restricted Data - The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
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Restricted Data - The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
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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 both 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.Â
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