Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945-1975

Brian Balogh (University of Virginia)

Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945-1975
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
25 October 1991
Pages
352
ISBN
9780521372961

Chain Reaction: Expert Debate and Public Participation in American Commercial Nuclear Power 1945-1975

Brian Balogh (University of Virginia)

Chain Reaction seeks to explain how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II, how those experts translated that authority into political clout, and why that authority and political discretion declined in the 1970s. Brian Balogh’s pathbreaking research into the internal memoranda of the Atomic Energy Commission substantiates his arguments in impressive historical detail.

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