Projects GNOME and SEDAN : the PLOWSHARE program /

"DNA 6029F."

Safety experiments : November 1955 - March 1958 /

"United States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests, Nuclear Test Personnel Review."

Operation TUMBLER-SNAPPER, 1952 /

"DNA 6019F."

Operation GREENHOUSE, 1951 /

"DNA 6034F."

Operation DOMINIC I, 1962 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Nuclear handbook for medical service personnel.

"April 1969."

Operation Sandstone, 1948 /

"DNA 6033F."

Operation Ranger : Shots ABLE, BAKER, EASY, BAKER-2, FOX, 25 January-6 February 1951 /

26 February 1982.

PLUMBBOB series, 1957 /

"DNA 6005F."

Nuclear Test Personnel Review (NTPR).

"5 February 1981."

Fear and U.S. foreign policy during the Truman administration, 1945-1952

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the Truman administration used fear to generate popular support for its Cold War foreign policies. Three issues were examined through the use of published government documents, personal memoirs, and weekly periodicals to assess the responses of the American public: the enactment of universal military training (UMT), the Soviet detonation of an atomic device, and the Truman administration's decision to build the hydrogen bomb. This study shows that the changing attitudes in the Truman administration toward the Soviet Union occurred in a climate of fear. Through press releases and by exerting influence on the media, the administration attempted to control the information the public received. Through the use of propaganda, the Truman administration pursued the implementation of UMT, generated fear of the Soviet Union after its detonation of the atomic bomb, and gained relative public support for the decision to build the hydrogen bomb.

Geochemistry, carbon isotope ratio and radiocarbon ages of sediment core GIK1093-2 from Bornholm Basin, Baltic Sea

Concentrations of Cd, Pb, Zn, Cu, Co, Ni, Fe, and Al203, water content, the amounts of organic carbon, the ratio of 13C/12C and the 14C-activity of the organic fraction were determined with sediment depth from a 34 cm long box-core from the Bornholm Basin (Baltic Sea). The average sedimentation rate was 2.4 mm/yr. The upper portion of the core contained increasing amounts of 14C-inactive organic carbon, and above 3 cm depth, man-made 14C from atomic bomb tests. The concentrations of the heavy metals Cd, Pb, Zn, and Cu increase strongly towards the surface, while other metals, as Fe, Ni and Co remain almost unchanged. This phenomenon is attributed to anthropogenic influences. A comparison of the Kieler Bucht, the Bornholm and the Gotland Basins shows that today the anthropogenic addition of Zn is about 100 mg/m**2 yr in all three basins. The beginning of this excess of Zn, however, is delayed by about 20 years in, the Bornholm Basin and by about 40 years in the Gotland Basin. It is suggested that SW-NE transport of these anthropogenically mobilized metals may be related to periodic bottom water renewal in the Baltic Sea sedimentary basins.

Lord of the ring: redressing the ‘White Oliphant’

 The doctoral work is divided into two parts: an exegesis dealing analytically with the idea of writing nonfiction works about scientists and a creative nonfiction work on the Australian scientist Sir Mark Oliphant encompassing also the practice of science, its culture, its politics and its intellectual arguments.

'Give back the human': poetic collaboration and hibakusha poems

Testimonies are viewed as essential for recording the experience of atomic warfare. However, hibakusha Keiko Ogura expresses the need for something more than recording and translating these testimonies. She highlights the need for an understanding of the hibakusha experience through a form of virtual collaboration with hibakusha and their stories. Ogura states that this is best achieved via ‘literature, art and poetry’ (Ogura 2015: n.pag.).This paper discusses why and how we speak about the atomic bomb and argues that virtual collaboration with hibakusha, by writing poetry based on their experiences and publishing it online, encourages empathy and keeps the experience alive for future generations. This paper uses Brandon Shimoda’s curated issue—entitled ‘Hiroshima/Nagasaki’—of Evening Will Come, a monthly online journal of poetics, as a case study.