The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age

Table of Contents

Contents List of illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi introduction: At the Core of the bomb, Narratives 1 1. Atomic Familiars on the Radioactive Landscape 12 2. Fallout Stories 29 3. Nuclear Approach/Avoidance: Social Scientists and the bomb 42 4. Survival of Self and Nation under Atomic Attack 61 5. Good bomb/bad bomb 84 6. The Atomic Kid: American Children vs. the bomb 99 Conclusion: The Magical and the Mundane 118 Notes 123 index 145 ...