LEADER 03731oam 22006614a 450 001 9910797297303321 005 20170822123845.0 010 $a979-88-908458-0-1 010 $a1-4696-2317-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000394427 035 $a(EBL)3039530 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001466374 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11825700 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001466374 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11503814 035 $a(PQKB)10614288 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001284133 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039530 035 $a(OCoLC)905949628 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse45981 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000394427 100 $a20140924d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLonging for the Bomb$eOak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia /$fLindsey A. Freeman 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aChapel Hill :$cThe University of North Carolina Press,$d[2015] 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2015 210 4$dİ[2015] 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-2237-8 311 $a1-4696-2238-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue -- 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. 330 $a"Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the U.S. government in the 1940s. Its workers labored at a breakneck pace, most aware only that their jobs were helping 'the war effort.' The city has experienced the entire lifespan of the Atomic Age, from the fevered wartime enrichment of the uranium that fueled Little Boy, through a brief period of atomic utopianism after World War II when it began to brand itself as 'The Atomic City,' to the anxieties of the Cold War, to the contradictory contemporary period of nuclear unease and atomic nostalgia. Oak Ridge's story deepens our understanding of the complex relationship between America and its bombs. Blending historiography and ethnography, Lindsey Freeman shows how a once-secret city is visibly caught in an uncertain present, no longer what it was historically yet still clinging to the hope of a nuclear future. It is a place where history, memory, and myth compete and conspire to tell the story of America's atomic past and to explain the nuclear present"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zTennessee$zOak Ridge 606 $aAtomic bomb$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aOfficial secrets$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aOak Ridge (Tenn.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 607 $aOak Ridge (Tenn.)$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aAtomic bomb$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aOfficial secrets$xHistory 676 $a355.8/25119097309044 700 $aFreeman$b Lindsey A$01126671 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797297303321 996 $aLonging for the Bomb$93842563 997 $aUNINA