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Zusatztext "Detailed! ambitious! and opinionated! this engaging narrative lays out a view of U.S. history often overlooked in standard texts and deserves a place on most library shelves." Informationen zum Autor Oliver Stone made such iconic films as Platoon , Wall Street , JFK , Born on the Fourth of July , Natural Born Killers , Nixon , Salvador , and W. , and is the author of the highly acclaimed memoir Chasing the Light .Peter Kuznick is professor of history and director of the award-winning Nuclear Studies Institute at American University and is currently serving his sixth three-year term as distinguished lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. He has written extensively about science and politics, nuclear history, and Cold War culture.Eric S. Singer is a high school and university educator and historian of the Cold War in the United States. He served on the faculty of the University of Baltimore, where he taught about the Cold War’s impact on ordinary Americans’ lives as well as other social, political, and structural forces that shaped American culture over four centuries. He adapted for young readers Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s The Untold History of the United States and Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird’s American Prometheus (as Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb). His work has been featured in Hamburg Institute for Social Research’s Angst im Kalten Krieg (Fear in the Cold War), Urban History, The Nation, The Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and The Baltimore Banner. He lives outside Washington, DC, with his wife, daughter, and dog, Umji. Klappentext Describes historical events of the United States between the years 1945-1962.The Untold History of the United States, Volume 2 1 Hiroshima: Imagination and Reality When Americans found out that the United States had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, many recoiled in horror. Others made light of the atomic bomb and its destructive power. Since photos and film footage from Hiroshima were still censored by the government, most Americans could not visualize the destruction that atomic bombs could do. As American cities had never been bombed, it was incredibly difficult for people to imagine what such devastation would look like. Americans read newspaper stories that described the bomb as the biggest ever dropped, more powerful than 20,000 tons of TNT. Without actual photos depicting the damage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, comedians, journalists, artists, and even bartenders let their imaginations run wild. Referring to Hiroshima, one radio announcer remarked that after the atomic bomb, the city “looked like Ebbets Field after a game between the Giants and the Dodgers.” Bartenders in Washington, DC, invented the “Atomic Cocktail,” an incredibly strong green-tinted drink that went “boom” when you drank it. General Mills sold “Atomic ‘Bomb’ Rings” for a breakfast cereal box top and fifteen cents. Ads for the rings urged people to “look into the ‘sealed atom chamber’ in ‘the gleaming aluminum warhead . . . [and] see genuine atoms SPLIT to smithereens!’?” 1 General Mills was bombarded with orders from 750,000 kids. Atomic pistols, atomic robots, atomic chemistry sets, uranium board games, PEZ candy space guns, and model nuclear reactors lined toy store shelves across the country. 2 Royal Tot Manufacturing Company of New York produced a “safe, harmless, cap shooting, giant atomic bomb.” Children could buy just one bomb or an entire arsenal. 3 Influenced by toy companies, radi...
