Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945-1975Chain Reaction seeks to explain how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II, how those experts translated that authority into political clout, and why that authority and political discretion declined in the 1970s. Brian Balogh's pathbreaking research into the internal memoranda of the Atomic Energy Commission substantiates his arguments in impressive historical detail. |
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Contents
professionalization and politics in twentiethcentury America | 1 |
nuclear experts and national politics 19451947 | 21 |
the politics of verisimilitude | 60 |
the Atomic Energy Commissions first decade of commercialization | 95 |
reactor safety 19471960 | 120 |
The magnetic pull of professional disciplines issue networks and local government | 149 |
mainstreaming expertise 19571970 | 171 |
the challenge to nuclear power 19601975 | 221 |
page xi | 238 |
95 | 247 |
120 | 254 |
149 | 261 |
171 | 266 |
327 | 276 |
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| Title | Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945-1975 |
| Author | Brian Balogh |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0521372968, 9780521372961 |
| Length | 340 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) History / Modern / 20th Century / General History / United States / General |
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