Just after World War II, nuclear scientists turned their attention from fission …
Just after World War II, nuclear scientists turned their attention from fission to fusion. This video segment adapted from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE looks at the beginnings of thermonuclear power generation.
Allow your students to relive December 7, 1941 and react to the …
Allow your students to relive December 7, 1941 and react to the attack on Pearl Harbor. They will hear first hand accounts from survivors and experience what it was like to be there that day. Further, let them shape their own opinions about the roles Japan and the United States played in the war, and empathize with those left in the atomic aftermath.
This course, organized as a series of lectures, aims to provide an …
This course, organized as a series of lectures, aims to provide an interdisciplinary view of the history and current climate of nuclear weapons and non-proliferation policy. The first lecture begins the series by discusses nuclear developments in one of the world's most likely nuclear flash points, and the second lecture presents a broad discussion of the dangers of current nuclear weapons policies as well as evaluations of current situations and an outlook for future nuclear weapons reductions.
This subject examines the unique culture that developed in the United States …
This subject examines the unique culture that developed in the United States after World War II. The dawn of the nuclear age and the ensuing Cold War fundamentally altered American politics and social life. It also led to a flowering of technological experimentation and rapid innovation in the sciences. Over the course of the term, students will explore how Americans responded to these changes, and how those responses continue to shape life in the US today.
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