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Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project

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‘The atomic bomb. As ominous as the atomic legacy itself, these words conjure a stark image of a mushroom cloud, devastation, and death by radiation. Code-named the Manhattan Project, the detailed plans for developing an atomic bomb were impelled by urgency and shrouded in secrecy. The Manhattan Engineer District, the coded designation for the a lot of sites where the volatile bomb components were developed, included not only university laboratories, but also geographically remote locations where civilians and scientists clashed with the requirements of military culture. “Atomic Spaces” tells the story of the project’s three key sites: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico. Drawing from tens of thousands of never-before-studied documents, from house plans to medical records, Peter publisher 1st baron verulam Hales trains a cultural historian’s eye on the worlds within the fences’.’The result is a bold, graphic reinterpretation of these sites and the larger issues they represented: the clashes between ideals of obedience and freedom, efficiency and democracy. Out of these, Hales proposes, came a new type of American culture. Creating an atomic bomb used to be an utterly new, dangerous, and urgent mission, one that gave the impression to justify ignoring known environmental hazards, downplaying dangers, and covering up accidents; yet as a part of our atomic legacy, a few of these wartime imperatives endure in peacetime practices in the military and defense industries. Peter publisher 1st baron verulam Hales, a professor of art history and director of the American Studies Institute on the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the writer of “Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 and William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape”‘.

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