Three Mile Island - The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Popular Culture

Informationen zum Autor Grace Halden is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. Klappentext Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island Power on March 28, 1979. Zusammenfassung Three Mile Island explains the far-reaching consequences of the partial meltdown of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island Power on March 28, 1979. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Nuclear Culture Chapter One: Atoms for War: World War II and the Cultural History of Early Nuclear Development Chapter Two: Atoms for Peace: Nuclear Power, and the Influence of the Long-1960s Chapter Three: When Science and Society Collide: The Three Mile Island Accident in Human Context Chapter Four: Nuclear Reactions: Three Mile Island in Popular Culture Chapter Five: Fears and Fallout: Three Mile Island’s Legacy, Chernobyl, and Fukushima

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• Authors: Halden, Grace Halden, Grace (Birkbeck College Halden, Halden Grace
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138917637
• ISBN: 978-1-138-91763-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Critical Moments in American History; Critical Moments in American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Pennsylvania, HISTORY / General, SCIENCE / History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Science, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Local History, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, Nuclear issues, Environmentalist thought and ideology, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States