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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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The Age of Hiroshima (Paperback)
Michael D. Gordin, G.John Ikenberry; Contributions by Campbell Craig, Alex Wellerstein, Sean L. Malloy, …
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R796
Discovery Miles 7 960
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A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many
legacies On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the
United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of
Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of
nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war
and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The
Age of Hiroshima traces these complex legacies, exploring how the
meanings of Hiroshima have reverberated across the decades and
around the world. Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry bring
together leading scholars from disciplines ranging from
international relations and political theory to cultural history
and science and technology studies, who together provide new
perspectives on Hiroshima as both a historical event and a cultural
phenomenon. As an event, Hiroshima emerges in the flow of decisions
and hard choices surrounding the bombing and its aftermath. As a
phenomenon, it marked a revolution in science, politics, and the
human imagination-the end of one age and the dawn of another. The
Age of Hiroshima reveals how the bombing of Hiroshima gave rise to
new conceptions of our world and its precarious interconnectedness,
and how we continue to live in its dangerous shadow today.
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The Age of Hiroshima (Hardcover)
Michael D. Gordin, G.John Ikenberry; Contributions by Campbell Craig, Alex Wellerstein, Sean L. Malloy, …
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R2,390
Discovery Miles 23 900
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A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many
legacies On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the
United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of
Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol of
nuclear annihilation, but it has also shaped how we think about war
and peace, the past and the present, and science and ethics. The
Age of Hiroshima traces these complex legacies, exploring how the
meanings of Hiroshima have reverberated across the decades and
around the world. Michael D. Gordin and G. John Ikenberry bring
together leading scholars from disciplines ranging from
international relations and political theory to cultural history
and science and technology studies, who together provide new
perspectives on Hiroshima as both a historical event and a cultural
phenomenon. As an event, Hiroshima emerges in the flow of decisions
and hard choices surrounding the bombing and its aftermath. As a
phenomenon, it marked a revolution in science, politics, and the
human imagination-the end of one age and the dawn of another. The
Age of Hiroshima reveals how the bombing of Hiroshima gave rise to
new conceptions of our world and its precarious interconnectedness,
and how we continue to live in its dangerous shadow today.
Investigations into the interplay of biological and legal
conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA
profiling by law enforcement. Legal texts have been with us since
the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became
textual. The discovery of the structure of DNA made it possible to
represent the basic matter of life with permutations and
combinations of four letters of the alphabet, A, T, C, and G. Since
then, the biological and legal conceptions of life have been in
constant, mutually constitutive interplay-the former focusing on
life's definition, the latter on life's entitlements. Reframing
Rights argues that this period of transformative change in law and
the life sciences should be considered "bioconstitutional."
Reframing Rights explores the evolving relationship of biology,
biotechnology, and law through a series of national and
cross-national case studies. Sheila Jasanoff maps out the
conceptual territory in a substantive editorial introduction, after
which the contributors offer "snapshots" of developments at the
frontiers of biotechnology and the law. Chapters examine such
topics as national cloning and xenotransplant policies; the
politics of stem cell research in Britain, Germany, and Italy; DNA
profiling and DNA databases in criminal law; clinical trials in
India and the United States; the GM crop controversy in Britain;
and precautionary policymaking in the European Union. These cases
demonstrate changes of constitutional significance in the relations
among human bodies, selves, science, and the state.
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