By The Bomb's Early Light Chapter Summary

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Paul Boyer, the author of By the Bomb’s Early Light, has an unusually high level of expertise on the subject of atomic bombs. He is an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is at the top of his field, and is a perfect candidate to write this book. Not only will he be an expert in the science of atomic bombs, but he will know the history of this kind of technology. Paul Boyer’s main idea in this book is more of a discussion of Nuclear Policy and a look back at the nuclear age. Mainly the book is about how the bombings we conducted in Japan and how the world changed after the bombing. Boyer shows the deep impact the atomic bomb had on the overall culture of the …show more content…

Chapter twelve brings optimism to light, with an almost “look at what we did, what more can we do?” attitude. Chapter thirteen has a more extreme optimism, that it is a good thing that these weapons are so expensive, due to the fact that if they were not the world would almost be destroying itself because of the commonality of the weapon. Chapter fourteen highlighted many of the opinions of key figures of the time, and how they believed that we should deal with the new found weapon. Chapter fifteen was about the topic of how we solved the great power struggle, but we cannot solve our own social issues by …show more content…

Chapter twenty begins by talking about how there almost wasn’t much else to write or even talking about. All people wanted to hear or read was “bomb, bomb, bomb,” nothing else truly appealed to them. Chapter twenty one was the true turn of our media towards talking about the future. We began seeing stories of worldwide fallouts and surviving. Chapter twenty two is the impact on the scientific world and how people started to almost believe science as much as their own religion. Chapter twenty three showed how much the bomb truly affected the minds of Americans, we began to have almost irrational fear of a constant bomb threat, truly showing how deeply the bomb was felt in all aspects of

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