Beyond the Mushroom Cloud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Mushroom Cloud write by Yuki Miyamoto. This book was released on 2012. Beyond the Mushroom Cloud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph explores the ethics and religious sensibilities of a group of the hibakusha (survivors) of 1945's atomic bombings. To this end, the methodology Miyamoto employs is moral hermeneutics, interpreting testimonies, public speeches, and films as texts, with interlocutors such as Avishai Margalit (philosopher), Sueki Fumihiko (Buddhist philosopher), Nagai Takashi (lay Catholic thinker), and Shinran (the founder of True Pure Land Buddhism). --from publisher description.
Restricted Data
Restricted Data - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Restricted Data write by Alex Wellerstein. This book was released on 2021-04-09. Restricted Data available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--
Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds
Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds write by Robert Mann. This book was released on 2011-11-07. Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one by one. As the camera slowly zooms in on her eye, a man's solemn countdown replaces hers. At zero the little girl's eye is engulfed by an atomic mushroom cloud. As the inferno roils in the background, President Lyndon B. Johnson's voice intones, "These are the stakes -- to make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die." In this thought-provoking and highly readable book, Robert Mann provides a concise, engaging study of the "Daisy Girl" ad, widely acknowledged as the most important and memorable political ad in American history. Commissioned by Johnson's campaign and aired only once during Johnson's 1964 presidential contest against Barry Goldwater, it remains an iconic piece of electoral propaganda, intertwining cold war fears of nuclear annihilation with the increasingly savvy world of media and advertising. Mann presents a nuanced view of how Johnson's campaign successfully cast Barry Goldwater as a radical too dangerous to control the nation's nuclear arsenal, a depiction that sparked immediate controversy across the United States. Repeatedly analyzed in countless books and articles, the spot purportedly destroyed Goldwater's presidential campaign. Although that degree of impact on the Goldwater campaign is debatable, what is certain is that the ad ushered in a new era of political advertising using emotional appeals as a routine aspect of campaign strategy.
The Beyond Within
The Beyond Within - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beyond Within write by . This book was released on 2010-04-11. The Beyond Within available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Mushroom at the End of the World
The Mushroom at the End of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mushroom at the End of the World write by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. This book was released on 2021-06-08. The Mushroom at the End of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction."--Publisher's description.
