Restricted Data

Introduction: The terrible inhibition of the atom

Part I. The Birth of Nuclear Secrecy
1-The road to secrecy: Chain reactions, 1939-1942
2-The "best-kept secret of the war": The Manhattan Project, 1942-1945
3-Preparing for "Publicity Day": A wartime secret revealed, 1944-1945

Part II. The Cold War Nuclear Secrecy Regime
4-The struggle for postwar control, 1944-1947
5-"Information control" and the Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1950
6-Peaceful atoms, dangerous scientists: The paradoxes of Cold War secrecy, 1950-1969

Part III. Challenges to Nuclear Secrecy
7-Unrestricted data: New challenges to the Cold War secrecy regime, 1964-1978
8-Secret seeking: Anti-secrecy at the end of the Cold War, 1978-1991
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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