The Dragon's Tail: Americans Face the Atomic Age

by Robert A. Jacobs

When President Harry Truman introduced the atomic bomb to the world in 1945, he described it as a God-given harnessing of "the basic power of the universe." Six days later a New York Times editorial framed the dilemma of the new Atomic Age for its readers: "Here the long pilgrimage of man on Earth turns towards darkness or towards light." American nuclear scientists, aware of the dangers their work involved, referred to one of their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558497277
• ISBN13: 9781558497276
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher