TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robey,Sarah E.
TI  - Atomic Americans: citizens in a nuclear state 
SN  - 9781501762093
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Ithaca, New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Nuclear weapons
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Group identity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index; Introduction: the wars to come -- Stop "play[ing] pattycake with the whole issue": citizen calls for civil defense -- "Between the devil and the deep": civil defense and the early Cold War political landscape -- The man in the white lab coat: the uses of scientists and scientific authority -- The fallout from fallout: the peacetime threat -- Atomic America: the expert public and nuclear dissent -- Conclusion: Renouncing the nuclear in nuclear citizenship
N2  - "Examines how American civic life and ideas about citizenship changed in response to the threat of nuclear attack in the early years of the Cold War"--
ER  -