atomic age

For decades, the Marshall Islanders would be moved around like pawns in a Cold War chess game — becoming the “unwitting, and perhaps unwilling, nomads of the atomic age,” admitted a Navy official.

The brochure for the donation program stated that “at the threshold of the atomic age we find our nation critically short of trained scientists and engineers so necessary if we are to reap the many benefits the friendly atom can bestow upon us.”

It was simply too dangerous, too unthinkable, in the atomic age—unless the most vital of U.S. interests were at stake.

Jaffe was the Candace Bushnell of the atomic age, painting a picture of the life of single working women in New York City.

Several Provoke photographers were children during World War II and were obviously influenced by the atomic age.

A haunting new exhibition at SFMOMA surveys the effects of the atomic age on a generation of daring Japanese photographers.

Among them: Steven Johnson's The Invention of Air and Tom Zoellner's Uranium, a history-cum-travel-narrative of the Atomic Age.

The first two decades of the Atomic Age have comprised a period of swift maturity.

The "death" of matter has been the "birth" of an Atomic Age.

Other films relating to the history of the Atomic Age are available for viewing and checkout from the library.

The 19 kiloton explosion not only led to a quick end to the war in the Pacific but also ushered the world into the atomic age.

Our continuing negotiations in this field are a major part of our quest for a confident peace in this atomic age.