The Dilemma of the Atom Bomb

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan H. McGowan
Keyword(s):  
Atom Bomb

Adam to the atom bomb, and beyond

The Lancet ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 349 (9064) ◽  
pp. 1560
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Atom Bomb

RADIOCARBON AND ATMOSPHERIC 14CO2 PIONEER ATHOL RAFTER

Radiocarbon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jocelyn C Turnbull ◽  
Dave C Lowe ◽  
Martin R Manning ◽  
Rodger Sparks
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Carbon Cycle ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Atom Bomb ◽  
Atmospheric Carbon ◽  
Tracer Experiments

ABSTRACT Direct atmospheric 14CO2 measurements began in New Zealand in 1954, initially to improve 14C as a dating tool, but quickly evolving into a method for understanding the carbon cycle. These early 14CO2 measurements immediately demonstrated the existence of an “Atom Bomb Effect,” as well as an “Industrial Effect.” These two gigantic tracer experiments have been utilized via 14CO2 measurements over the years to produce a wealth of knowledge in multiple research fields including atmospheric carbon cycle research, oceanography, soil science, and aging of post-bomb materials.

The Threat of Hitler’s Atom Bomb

Otto Hahn ◽  
2001 ◽  
pp. 155-178
Author(s):  
Klaus Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Atom Bomb

Atom Bomb and Nobel Prize

Otto Hahn ◽  
2001 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Klaus Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Atom Bomb

Iran's Atom Bomb: To Be or Not to Be?

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
S. N. Sarukhanian
Keyword(s):  
Atom Bomb

National War Heritage at the Australian War Memorial and Hiroshima Peace Park

2021 ◽  
pp. 030582982110313
Author(s):  
Christine Sylvester
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Atom Bomb ◽  
Physical Manifestation

Much material heritage is marked by national memorials to war and its heroes. This article considers two examples that commemorate aspects of defeat, loss, and military disaster in war – the Australian War Memorial and attached museum and the museum and Peace Park at Hiroshima Japan. For Australians, the nation became a recognisable entity in the wake of disastrous defeat at Gallipoli in World War I. The physical manifestation of that heritage combines a solemn mausoleum with a massive and expanding museum that celebrates all Australia’s war contributions since then. For Japan, the peace park in Hiroshima focuses on the civilian heritage of the atom bomb Americans dropped in August 1945. Unlike the Australian Memorial, there is no celebration of war, soldiers, or militarism at the Peace Park. This article explores the differences, similarities, ironies, and contradictions of war heritages built out of crushing instances of loss rather than national moments of victory.

Difficulties at the Metalevel

Runaway ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Chaney
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Double Bind ◽  
Kurt Vonnegut ◽  
Atom Bomb ◽  
Logical Paradox ◽  
Administration Hospital ◽  
Catch 22 ◽  
Lewis Mumford ◽  
The Stranger

The narrative setting for chapter 2 is the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, California, in the 1950s, where Bateson lead the double-bind research group investigating paradox and disorder in family relations. The chapter traces the early development of the double-bind theory of schizophrenia and its source in Russellian logical paradox. It discusses the double bind as a resonant and empirically rich example of similar constructs that distilled the modern predicament as an impossible dilemma. Other examples include Joseph Heller's catch-22, Reinhold Niebuhr's reformulation of original sin and his Serenity Prayer; Albert Camus's concept of the absurd and his novel The Stranger; and constructions in Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Slaughterhouse Five. Double-bind equivalents as reactions to the atom bomb are described in works such as Joanna Greenberg's I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Allen Ginsberg's Howl, and the film Rebel Without a Cause. Meanwhile, social critics such as Lewis Mumford used psychiatric and systems theory language and paradoxical constructions to talk about the failure of "pragmatic liberalism," the arms race, and policies of nuclear deterrence.

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