Title The dragon's tail : Americans face the atomic age / Robert A. Jacobs.

Imprint	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010]
	©2010

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
2nd FL Humanities Library Books	E169.12 .J265 2010	Available

Collation	xii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Series	Culture, politics, and the cold war
	Culture, politics, and the Cold War.
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: At the core of the bomb, narratives -- Atomic familiars on the radioactive landscape -- Fallout stories -- Nuclear approach/avoidance : social scientists and the bomb -- Survival of self and nation under atomic attack -- Good bomb/bad bomb -- The atomic kid : American children vs. the bomb -- Conclusion: The magical and the mundane.
Note	Gift of the Estate of Norman Wilkinson.
Subject	Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
	Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
	War and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	War and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
	Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
	United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
	United States -- Civilization -- 1945- -- Sources.
ISBN	9781558497276 (paper : alk. paper)
	1558497277 (paper : alk. paper)
	9781558497269 (library cloth : alk. paper)
	1558497269 (library cloth : alk. paper)