num_pages: 280
description: Fallout offers the reflections and observations of historian Paul Boyer on the fascinating and complex impact of the bomb in American life from the special perspective of a person who experienced and participated in the events and movements about which he writes. Boyer provides us with a rich understanding of nuclear reality in American thought and culture after 1945.The essays range widely, from a discussion of the shattering impact of the news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on a war-weary nation in 1945 to ruminations on the 1995 Enola Gay controversy, when a proposed fiftieth-anniversary commemorative exhibit on the atomic bombing of Japan at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History generated bitter controversy.
language: English
title: Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons
titlecomplete: Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons
genres: War, History
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Ohio State University Press