The United States in the Nuclear Age

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DUE DATES
1	Introductions
2	Key Questions, Debates, and Approaches to the Nuclear Age
Unit 1 - The Bomb and Atomic Culture
3	The Dawn of the Nuclear Age
4	Duck and Cover: Civil Defense
5	Domestic Containment and the Nuclear Family	Unit 1 paper due
Unit 2 - Enemies from Within: The Culture and Politics of Security
6	McCarthyism and the Red Scare
7	Sex, Gender, and the Lavender Scare
8	Psychology in an Age of Anxiety	Unit 2 paper due
Unit 3 - The Military - Industrial - Academic Complex
9	The Emergence of Computing Technology
10	Humans, Machines, and the Reorganization of Work
11	MIT and the Cold War Guest Speaker Professor David Kaiser, MIT
12	Organization Men and Their Critics	Unit 3 paper due
Unit 4 - The Politics of Space and Race
13	Suburbanization, White Flight, and Urban Crisis
14	The Malling of America
15	Race and the Space Race	Unit 4 paper due
Unit 5 - The Global Cold War
16	The Global Cold War and the Making of Three Worlds
17	China’s Cold War Guest Lecturer Professor Christopher R. Leighton, MIT
18	Cold War Civil Rights	Unit 5 paper due
Unit 6 - Rebels, Critics, and the End of Consensus
19	Delinquents and Rebels: The 1950s as Prelude to the 1960s
20	The End of Consensus: The Student Movement and the New Left
21	Rethinking Nature in a Nuclear Age
22	The Return of Fear and the Anti-Nuclear Movement	Unit 6 paper due
Conclusions
23	Legacies of the Cold War and the Unfolding Nuclear Age
24	Closing Thoughts and Paper Presentations	Final essay due