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Rezelman, David.

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"Terror and mystery": The United States and nuclear fear, 1905--45.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Terror and mystery": The United States and nuclear fear, 1905--45./
Author:	Rezelman, David.
Description:	314 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Richard H. Immerman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	History, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3233466
ISBN:	9780542870866

"Terror and mystery": The United States and nuclear fear, 1905--45.
Rezelman, David.

"Terror and mystery": The United States and nuclear fear, 1905--45. - 314 p.

Adviser: Richard H. Immerman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2006.

Albert Einstein's realization in 1905 that matter could be converted into energy changed the world forever. The United States government recognized the danger in 1939, and fear of nuclear weapons has been one of the primary forces driving U.S. national security policy ever since. Although the German nuclear weapons program ultimately proved to be a pale shadow of its American counterpart, the fear it caused had a tremendous effect on the evolution of U.S. nuclear policy in the Second World War. Further, coping with the possible German threat was the formative experience with nuclear fear that influenced many of the most important makers of U.S. national security policy during the Cold War that followed.

ISBN: 9780542870866Subjects--Topical Terms:

516334
History, Modern.

"Terror and mystery": The United States and nuclear fear, 1905--45.
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520 $a Albert Einstein's realization in 1905 that matter could be converted into energy changed the world forever. The United States government recognized the danger in 1939, and fear of nuclear weapons has been one of the primary forces driving U.S. national security policy ever since. Although the German nuclear weapons program ultimately proved to be a pale shadow of its American counterpart, the fear it caused had a tremendous effect on the evolution of U.S. nuclear policy in the Second World War. Further, coping with the possible German threat was the formative experience with nuclear fear that influenced many of the most important makers of U.S. national security policy during the Cold War that followed.
520 $a The absence of specific intelligence information forced U.S. scientists and government officials to make decisions about nuclear policy during most of the Second World War based not on what Germany was doing, but on what it might be capable of doing in a worst case scenario. The perception of just how bad that "worst case" might become evolved as the war situation from 1939 to 1942. During these years even the possibility that Germany might soon be able to mount large-scale conventional attacks on North America was no longer discounted.
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