03763oam 22006734a 450 991081695420332120170822123845.0979-88-908458-0-11-4696-2317-X(CKB)3710000000394427(EBL)3039530(SSID)ssj0001466374(PQKBManifestationID)11825700(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001466374(PQKBWorkID)11503814(PQKB)10614288(StDuBDS)EDZ0001284133(MiAaPQ)EBC3039530(OCoLC)905949628(MdBmJHUP)muse45981(EXLCZ)99371000000039442720140924d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLonging for the BombOak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia /Lindsey A. FreemanFirst edition.Chapel Hill :The University of North Carolina Press,[2015]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2015©[2015]1 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-2237-8 1-4696-2238-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue -- Introduction -- The atomic prophecy -- Brahms and bombs on the atomic frontier -- At work in the atomic beehive -- We didn't exactly live in a democracy -- From Hiroshima to normalization -- Happy memories under the mushroom cloud -- Manhattan Project time machine -- Atomic snapshots -- Longing for the bomb."Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the U.S. government in the 1940s. Its workers labored at a breakneck pace, most aware only that their jobs were helping 'the war effort.' The city has experienced the entire lifespan of the Atomic Age, from the fevered wartime enrichment of the uranium that fueled Little Boy, through a brief period of atomic utopianism after World War II when it began to brand itself as 'The Atomic City,' to the anxieties of the Cold War, to the contradictory contemporary period of nuclear unease and atomic nostalgia. Oak Ridge's story deepens our understanding of the complex relationship between America and its bombs. Blending historiography and ethnography, Lindsey Freeman shows how a once-secret city is visibly caught in an uncertain present, no longer what it was historically yet still clinging to the hope of a nuclear future. It is a place where history, memory, and myth compete and conspire to tell the story of America's atomic past and to explain the nuclear present"--Provided by publisher.Popular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945TennesseeOak RidgeAtomic bombSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryOfficial secretsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryOak Ridge (Tenn.)Social life and customs20th centuryOak Ridge (Tenn.)History20th centuryElectronic books. Popular cultureHistoryWorld War, 1939-1945Atomic bombSocial aspectsHistory.Official secretsHistory355.8/25119097309044355.825119097309044Freeman Lindsey A1126671MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910816954203321Longing for the Bomb3986621UNINA