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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
... over 17,000 square feet, included the display of an operating TRIGA reactor sponsored by the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), which demonstrated the production of radioisotopes used for various peaceful purposes. 8 The Soviet pavilion, unsurprisingly, displayed images of earth captured by Sputnik...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 368–387.
Published: 01 July 2014
... and knowledge. The other side of the story is that agriculture also proved important to the development of nuclear technologies because it provided a clearly peaceful output for atomic research. Atomic agriculture thus frequently assumed a place of prominence for explaining how splitting the atom was a gift...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 572–606.
Published: 01 November 2024
... mutation breeding program of durum wheat, typically used for pasta making. Drawing from a variety of archival sources, this article shows how both programs were instrumental in legitimizing and bolstering the use of the “peaceful atom” in agriculture on a national and global scale. francesco.cassata...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 541–571.
Published: 01 November 2024
... over odds and obstacles. This is the case for the story of screwworm eradication in Charles G. Scruggs's The Peaceful Atom and the Deadly Fly , in which Knipling and Bushland are the brilliant pioneers of the new technology and the protectors of ranchers and their livestock against villainous invaders...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 November 2024
... public rhetoric, some secondary arguments offered reinforcement. Ranchers and USDA officials noted that the screwworm eradication program provided an inspiring example of the peaceful use of atomic energy and provided an opportunity to develop a technique that might be used against many other pests...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 518–540.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and outright criticism. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 the Agricultural History Society 2024 atomic agriculture International Atomic Energy Agency Atoms for Peace genetics plant breeding I n early 1980, German plant geneticist Alexander Micke pondered the future...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 513–517.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of social and political conditions, including the deeper history of colonialism and US occupation, the problematic dependency on agricultural chemicals, and the profound ambivalence toward the “peaceful atom” felt by Japanese scientists who participated in the irradiation of millions of fruit flies while...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 642–673.
Published: 01 November 2024
... atomic techniques shaped past agricultural research. Like much of the decolonizing, developing world, Pakistan participated in the Atoms for Peace initiative in the late 1950s. Results were initially disappointing, but a turning point came with two key leadership appointments: Ishrat Hussain Usmani...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 609–614.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., despite whatever Atoms for Peace rationalizations were offered after the fact. Its application to agriculture as a way to induce mutations is another example of innovation in biotechnology being embedded in the broader sweep of more general technological advances. Having unleashed atomic fission...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (4): 415–435.
Published: 01 October 2006
...), in conjunction with the USDA and State Cooperative Extension Services, launched campaigns to educate farmers on their roles as providers of food and as budding atomic scientists. The rhetoric of these programs reinforced the notion that rural Americans contributed not only food and raw materials to the American...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (2): 311–312.
Published: 01 April 2014
... thinking. It was in places such as India that Americans made important connections between biology and poverty. As journalist James Reston wrote in 1961, the greatest menace to world peace . . . is not atomic energy but sexual energy (85). How to manage the population bomb of the Third World became...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (2): 208–219.
Published: 01 April 2002
... War have the American people been as united and convinced they were fighting the "good war" to defeat what nearly everyone assumed to be an unmitigated evil. And just as the beginning of the war signaled a dramatic period of transition from peace to wartime conditions, the end of the conflict meant...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 225–246.
Published: 01 April 2015
... Spotting Service Being Organized Here,” Sauk Centre Herald , Mar. 26 , 1942 , 7 ; “If I Were Writing the Peace,” Racine (Wise.) Agriculturist and Farmer , Mar. 17 , 1945 , 20 ; Sherry , In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s ( New Haven : Yale University Press...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2020
... as technically savvy and a businessman were not new but were increasingly important after the crises of the Great Depression and World War II passed. With the restoration of prosperity (albeit incomplete) and peace (also incomplete), there were few obstacles to the growth of these representations of the farm man...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 349–375.
Published: 01 August 2024
... by artist Lorraine Schneider for the antiwar group Another Mother for Peace and reproduced countless times on placards and buttons in protest of US military involvement in Vietnam. Yet Ag Chem had altered the accompanying text in notable ways. The original had been “War is not healthy for children...
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and later rallied indefence of South Korea. Therewere differencebsetween theallies,especiallyoverAsia, but these were tactical and readily adjusted. Certainly, in the tense atmosphere of December 1950, with Mao's troops pouring into South Korea and the spec tre of atomic war looming, Canadian ministers...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2013
... the record of men and women stubbornly trying to make a safe home, security for themselves, a better world for their children. Thus Borland linked the story of homesteading to both domestic and international security, themes that dominated the Cold War era. In an era of atomic power he wrote, the bitter...
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Agricultural History (2019) 93 (1): 4–34.
Published: 01 January 2019
... food. Begun during the Dwight Eisenhower administration s Atoms for Peace Program in 1953, irradiated food was meant to be a friendly result of the nuclear era and another way to feed a starving world. Yet it comes with health hazards and economic and trade policies against which developing nations...
