Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America

Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar America. It tells the wide—ranging story of African Americans' response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. It examines the anti—nuclear writing and activism of major figures such as W.E.B....