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Learning Objectives

  1. What rivals to atomic theory were there in ancient Greece?
  2. How did atomic theory develop during the Scientific Revolution?
  3. What were the major developments in the 19th century toward understanding the atom?
  4. What were the major developments in the early 20th century toward understanding the atom?
  5. How did quantum theory develop in the early 20th century?
  1. How did war efforts around World War I impact the era of “Big Science”?
  2. What were the impacts of the rise of totalitarianism in Russia and Germany on scientific research?
  3. How did Germany and the U.S. at first progress toward a nuclear bomb during World War II?
  4. What factors led to the U.S. becoming the first to develop a nuclear bomb?
  5. How did Oppenheimer and Groves work together to get Los Alamos working?
  1. How did the atomic bomb shape the situation at the end of World War II?
  2. How did the concept of "total war" apply to how World War II was carried out?
  3. What was the impact of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the world at large?
  4. How did the U.S. administer atomic energy during the postwar years?
  5. How did the atomic bomb shape American-Soviet diplomacy during the postwar years?
  1. How did U.S. and Soviet interests compete with one another at the start of the Cold War?
  2. What was the "containment" strategy toward the U.S.S.R. as interpreted by different parties?
  3. What difficulties did the hydrogen bomb introduce into nuclear strategy?
  4. What was the impact of espionage on the U.S. nuclear program?
  5. What was the cultural impact of atomic anxieties on the American psyche?
  1. How did the Eisenhower administration differ from the Truman administration?
  2. How did the New Look military present itself to new international challenges?
  3. What were the purposes and scope of U.S. and Soviet nuclear testing?
  4. What were the intentions of the various parties toward nuclear disarmament?
  5. What were civil defense efforts like the 1950s toward the nuclear threat?
  1. What is the “military-industrial complex,” and what were its origins?
  2. What security and foreign policy outlooks did John F. Kennedy bring to the Cold War?
  3. What were the origins and nature of the Berlin crisis?
  4. What were the origins and nature of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
  5. In what ways did nuclear fears play out in the public imagination?
  1. How did the popular imagination conceive of atomic energy after World War II?
  2. What forces and influences shaped the drive toward civilian atomic energy in the early Cold War?
  3. What were President Eisenhower’s policies toward atomic energy?
  4. What international political effects did the U.S. seek in introducing atomic energy to its allies?
  5. How did other countries besides the U.S. develop their nuclear programs?
  1. Under what conditions did nuclear power in the U.S. flourish?
  2. What was the evolution of the nuclear power industry’s outlook toward safety concerns?
  3. How did the antinuclear movement arise, and what were its impacts on nuclear policy?
  4. What was the impact of the energy crisis of the 1970s on nuclear power?
  5. What credibility problems did the nuclear industry face in the mid-1970s?
  1. How did deregulation affect nuclear power in the 1980s and 1990s?
  2. What were the long-term effects of the Three Mile Island accident on the nuclear industry?
  3. What changes in nuclear policy occurred around the world in the 1980s?
  4. What were the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on nuclear policy, worldwide and in the Soviet Union?
  5. How were the issues of radioactive waste and uranium mining handled through the 1980s and 1990s?
  1. How did the Reagan administration reshape military policy in the 1980s?
  2. What events converged in the early 1980s to bring U.S.-Soviet relations to a low point?
  3. How did U.S.-Soviet relations change in the mid-1980s?
  4. What was the transition like from Reagan to George H. W. Bush on military issues?
  5. How did the end of the Cold War impact nuclear arms talks?
  1. How did the administration of George W. Bush change military and nuclear policy?
  2. What were the new international challenges on the nuclear scene at the beginning of the 21st century?
  3. How did the Obama administration change military and nuclear policy?
  4. What was the role of nuclear power in the climate change debates?
  5. How did the Fukushima disaster affect the world’s outlook toward nuclear power?

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