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We will discuss selections from two related and recently or soon-to-be published books:
 
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, The Wretched Atom: America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology (New York: Oxford Universty Press, 2021), introduction and chapter 5. (PDF is available in the restricted login area for group members)
 
Christine Keiner, Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal (Athens: University of Georgia Press Press, 2020), introduction and chapter 4. Please see the following open access link to read the book: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780820358635

The two authors will open the discussion with comments on each other's books.

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Seemed Right at the Time?! Scenes from Science Past

Performers of Seemed Right at the Time?! Scenes from Science Past at the Philadelphia Science Festival, Wagner Free Institute of Science, April 28, 2011.