Atomic Age America

Examines atomic energy as a lens to 20^th and 21^st-century America.

Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy—focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power—on the lives of Americans within a world context. The text examines the social, political, diplomatic, environmental, and technical impacts of atomic energy on the 20^th and 21^st centuries, with a look back to the origins of atomic theory.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book readers will be able to:

• Develop a background in the origins of atomic theory and atomic science
• View nuclear technologies within the historical context in which they were created and used
• Understand how atomic energy helped frame the second half of the 20^th century, and how it continues to influence in the 21^st

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Martin V. Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. His primary fields of study are environmental, urban, and energy history. He is the author or editor of nineteen books and more than 85 articles and book chapters, including the award-winning The Sanitary City (2000). In 2000-01 he held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris, University of Helsinki, Tampere Technical University, Peking University, and Shanghai University. He is past-president of the American Society for Environmental History, the Public Works Historical Society, the Urban History Association, and the National Council on Public History.