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- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: The Terrible Inhibition of the Atom
- Part I. The Birth of Nuclear Secrecy
- Chapter 1: The Road to Secrecy: Chain Reactions, 1939-1942
- 1.1 The fears of fission
- 1.2 From self-censorship to government control
- 1.3 Absolute secrecy
- Chapter 2: The "Best-Kept Secret of the War": The Manhattan Project, 1942-1945
- 2.1 The heart of security
- 2.2 Leaks, rumors, and spies
- 2.3 Avoiding accountability
- 2.4 The problem of secrecy
- Chapter 3: Preparing for "Publicity Day": A Wartime Secret Revealed, 1944-1945
- 3.1 The first history of the atomic bomb
- 3.2 Press releases, public relations, and purple prose
- 3.3 Secrecy from publicity
- Part II. The Cold War Nuclear Secrecy Regime
- Chapter 4: The Struggle for Postwar Control, 1944-1947
- 4.1 Wartime plans for postwar control
- 4.2 "Restricted Data" and the Atomic Energy Act
- 4.3 Oppenheimer's anti-secrecy gambits
- Chapter 5: "Information Control" and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1950
- 5.1 The education of David Lilienthal
- 5.2 The "thrashing" of reform
- 5.3 Three shocks
- Chapter 6: Peaceful Atoms, Dangerous Scientists: The Paradoxes of Cold War Secrecy, 1950-1969
- 6.1 The H-bomb's silence and roar
- 6.2 Dangerous minds
- 6.3 Making atoms peaceful and profitable
- Part III. Challenges to Nuclear Secrecy
- Chapter 7: Unrestricted Data: New Challenges to the Cold War Secrecy Regime, 1964-1978
- 7.1 The centrifuge conundrum
- 7.2 The perils of "peaceful" fusion
- 7.3 Atoms for terror
- Chapter 8: Secret Seeking: Anti-Secrecy at the End of the Cold War, 1978-1991
- 8.1 Drawing the H-bomb
- 8.2 The "dream case": The Progressive v. The United States
- 8.3 Open-source intelligence in a suspicious age
- Chapter 9: Nuclear Secrecy and Openness after the Cold War
- Conclusion: The Past and Future of Nuclear Secrecy
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Archival sources and abbreviations
- Articles
- Books and monographs
- Index
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