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Smashing the atom
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Smashing the atom
The atomic age
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1750-1820 Enlightenment & Measurement
1800-1860 Manufacture by Machine
1820-1880 Industrial Town
1820-1880 Age of the Engineer
1870-1914 Second Industrial Revolution
1914-1939 Age of the Mass
1930-1968 Defiant Modernism
1950-1965 Design Diversity
1960-2000 Age of Ambivalence
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Bowl from Hiroshima, c.1945
Fused sand from atomic bomb test, 1945
Power
Protest groups
Geography of energy
War, literature and technology
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Smashing the atom
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Accelerating atoms - particle accelerators
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Inside the atom
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The atomic age
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A question of sustainability
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Fusion: The science of the sun
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Conclusion
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