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The Soviet position on prohibition of atomic weapons and international control of atomic energy
Title
The Soviet position on prohibition of atomic weapons and international control of atomic energy.
Creator
Vyshinsky, Andrey Yanuaryevich
Date Issued
1949
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/369047
Subject Headings
Nuclear energy., Atomic bomb.
Format
Document (PDF)
Atomic spies: The Soviet penetration of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory
Title
Atomic spies: The Soviet penetration of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory.
Creator
Cabrera, Christopher G., Florida Atlantic University, O'Sullivan, John
Abstract/Description
The intelligence services of the Soviet Union capitalized on several factors that facilitated their successful penetration of Los Alamos Laboratory, allowing them access to the secrets of the atomic bomb. The freedoms enjoyed in a democratic society, the appeal of communism, and the special considerations of wartime presented an environment in the United States conducive for the development and operation of Soviet spy networks. While these conditions did present the Soviets with circumstances...
Show moreThe intelligence services of the Soviet Union capitalized on several factors that facilitated their successful penetration of Los Alamos Laboratory, allowing them access to the secrets of the atomic bomb. The freedoms enjoyed in a democratic society, the appeal of communism, and the special considerations of wartime presented an environment in the United States conducive for the development and operation of Soviet spy networks. While these conditions did present the Soviets with circumstances favorable for espionage work, the foremost reason for the Soviet Union's skillful theft of atomic secrets from Los Alamos Laboratory involved the fact that they had help from inside of the Manhattan Project. The contributions of Theodore Hall, Klaus Fuchs, and David Greenglass allowed the Soviet Union to obtain critical information on both technologies required to develop the atomic bomb as well and a detailed bomb design.
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Date Issued
1998
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15591
Subject Headings
Manhattan Project (U.S.), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Espionage, Soviet--United States, Spies, Atomic bomb
Format
Document (PDF)
Gregory Corso's "Bomb": A response to nuclear anxiety
Title
Gregory Corso's "Bomb": A response to nuclear anxiety.
Creator
Serrano, Janet West., Florida Atlantic University, Paton, Priscilla
Abstract/Description
Gregory Corso is a core member of the Beat Generation which evolved in America during the 1950s to question the causes of a perceived decline in postwar spiritual values. The Beats criticized an America that permitted the atomic explosions over Japan, the McCarthy discourse, the Cold War, and the policies of mistrust and paranoia these events engendered. Corso addressed the issue of nuclear anxiety and its controlling effect on life in a 1958 poem titled "Bomb." This paper analyzes "Bomb,"...
Show moreGregory Corso is a core member of the Beat Generation which evolved in America during the 1950s to question the causes of a perceived decline in postwar spiritual values. The Beats criticized an America that permitted the atomic explosions over Japan, the McCarthy discourse, the Cold War, and the policies of mistrust and paranoia these events engendered. Corso addressed the issue of nuclear anxiety and its controlling effect on life in a 1958 poem titled "Bomb." This paper analyzes "Bomb," viewing it as a work informed by Corso's life and by his times. In "Bomb," one of the earliest examples of nuclear literature, Corso seeks to neutralize the power of nuclear anxiety by imagining a natural and spiritual survival of the atomic apocalypse. His message reflects the moral and prophetic role he prescribes for poetry in championing the forces of life over death.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15264
Subject Headings
Corso, Gregory--Criticism and interpretation, Corso, Gregory--Bomb, American poetry--20th century--History and criticism, Nuclear warfare in literature, Apocalyptic literature--History and criticism, Atomic bomb in literature, Antinuclear movement--Poetry, Beat generation
Format
Document (PDF)
Documentary theatre: pedagogue and healer with their voices raised
Title
Documentary theatre: pedagogue and healer with their voices raised.
Creator
Morris, Kathryn M., Gamble, Richard J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Theatre and Dance
Abstract/Description
The beginning of the new millennium finds documentary theatre serving as teacher and “healer” to those suffering and in need. By providing a thought provoking awareness of the “other,” it offers a unique lens with which to examine the socio-political similarities and differences between various cultures and ethnicities in order to promote intercultural understanding. Documentary is also used by teachers, therapists, and researchers as a tool for healing. By sharing personal stories of trauma...
Show moreThe beginning of the new millennium finds documentary theatre serving as teacher and “healer” to those suffering and in need. By providing a thought provoking awareness of the “other,” it offers a unique lens with which to examine the socio-political similarities and differences between various cultures and ethnicities in order to promote intercultural understanding. Documentary is also used by teachers, therapists, and researchers as a tool for healing. By sharing personal stories of trauma and illness with others who are experiencing similar difficulties, emotional pains are alleviated and fears are assuaged. Documentary theatre has expanded in definition from the “epic dramas” of German playwrights Erwin Piscator and Bertholt Brecht during the height of the German Weimar Republic to the recent “verbatim” scripts of playwrights such as Anna Deveare Smith, Emily Mann, and Robin Soans. The dramaturgical duties of the playwright along with the participatory role of the audience have grown in complexity. In verbatim documentary the playwright must straddle a fine line between educating and entertaining while remaining faithful to the words of the respondents as well as to the context in which they were received. The audience, by responding to questionnaires and by engaging in talk-back sessions, plays a pivotal role in production. Documentary serves as an important vehicle for informing and inspiring audiences from all walks of life. In 2010, researchers Dr. Patricia Liehr of the Christine E. Lynn School of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University and Dr. Ryutaro Takahashi, Vice Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, approached me to create a documentary based on their combined interviews of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima survivors. The resultant script, With Their Voices Raised, is included as an appendix to this dissertation as an example of the documentary genre and its unique capacity for research dissemination. With Their Voices Raised not only conveys the memories and fears of the survivors, but in its conclusion reveals how these victims of war have elected to live their lives in a quest for peace- choosing “hope over hate” in a shared world
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004142, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004142
Subject Headings
Atomic bomb -- Japan, Hiroshima shi -- Personal narratives, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Documentary mass media -- United States -- Social aspects, Experimental theater, Liehr, Patricia -- With their voices raised -- Criticism and interpretation, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) -- Attack on -- 1941 -- Personal narratives, Takahashi, Ryutaro -- With their voices raised -- Criticism and interpretation, Theater -- Social aspects
Format
Document (PDF)