Chain reaction : expert debate and public participation in American commercial nuclear power, 1945-1975

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Chain reaction : expert debate and public participation in American commercial nuclear power, 1945-1975

Brian Balogh

Cambridge University Press, 1991

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Path-breaking research into the Atomic Energy Commission's internal memorandum files supports this text's explanation of how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II and why their authority and political clout declined in the 1970s.

目次

  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Professionalisation and politics in twentieth-century
  • America: from fission to fusion
  • 2. The promise of the proministrative state: nuclear experts and national politics, 1945-1947
  • 3. Forging an iron triangle: the politics of verisimilitude
  • 4. Triangulating demand: the AEC's first decade of commercialisation
  • 5. The centrifugal push of expertise: reactor safety, 1947-1960
  • 6. The magnetic pull of professional disciplines, issue networks and local government
  • 7. Nuclear experts on top, not on tap: mainstreaming expertise, 1957-1970
  • 8. Nuclear experts everywhere: the challenge to nuclear power, 1960-1975
  • 9. Conclusion: harnessing political chain reactions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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