Title: Fallout
Subtitle: a historian reflects on America's half-century encounter with nuclear weapons
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Nuclear weapons, Cold War, Social aspects of Cold War, Social aspects, Social aspects of Nuclear weapons, Civilization, United states, civilization, 1945-, Essays (single author)
Places: United States
Time periods: 1945-
LC classification: E169.12 .B6845 1998