Mon 1/25 – The Atomic Age
by admin - January 25th, 2016
Some links relevant to today’s discussion of the documents in History of Our Time Part One
Atomic Detonations, 1945 – 1998
Truman Library: online documents related to Cold War, Truman Doctrine, and much more
John F. Kennedy Library site about the Cuban Missile Crisis
For the full Kennan telegram and other now-declassified NSA documents, see the online NSA Archive
New York Times has published an excerpt of Haynes and Klehr’s book on the Venona Project; also for some of the original decoded intercepts, see here PBS / NOVA
January 27 is “Downwinders Day” to recognize the health and environmental impact of above-ground nuclear testing from the 1940s and 1950s in the American southwest
For additional primary source documents of the Atomic Age, start here (MIT) and here (Digital Public Library of America)
Lesson Plan w/ documents: Government pamphlet about nuclear fallout (Library of Congress)
See also the classic civil defense film made for schoolchildren, “Duck and Cover” (1951)
Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961)
