The Nuclear Age, 1900-2025

This course will look over selected aspects of the nuclear age. These will include: the unraveling of the atom, the reasons for the first atomic bombs, the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the little-known bombing campaign that preceded those attacks, the social aspects of the nuclear age, and finally the hows and whys of nuclear disarmament. 

Required Reading: Mark Wolverton, Nuclear Weapons, ISBN 978-0262543316.

John Dunn was an economist at the U.S. Department of Labor for five years and a programmer at IBM for twenty years.