Traces the history of the nuclear age from the Manhattan project to Star Wars, looks at how the atom bomb influenced United States defence policy, and describes the impact of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy on everyday life

Product Description: In this vivid account of the impact of the atomic bomb on American political and cultural life, Allan M. Winkler delineates how fears of nuclear disaster have become a part of our culture. Tracing the debate among scientists and intellectuals over military and civilian uses of atomic power as well as the waxing and waning of popular protest, "Life Under a Cloud" reveals the irony, anxiety, and official insanity of the atomic age...read more