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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| First Reactions | |
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| "The Whole World Gasped" | |
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| Overture: The World-Government Movement | |
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| The Summons to Action | |
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| Atomic-Bomb Nightmares and World-Government Dreams | |
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| The Atomic Scientists: From Bomb-Makers to Political Sages | |
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| The Political Agenda of the Scientists' Movement | |
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| "To the Village Square": The Public Agenda of the Scientists' Movement | |
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| The Uses of Fear | |
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| Representative Text: One World or None | |
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| The Mixed Message of Bikini | |
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| The Scientists' Movement in Eclipse | |
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| Anodyne to Terror: Fantasies of a Techno-Atomic Utopia | |
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| Atomic Cars, Artificial Suns, Cancer-Curing Isotopes: The Search for a Silver Lining | |
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| Bright Dreams and Disturbing Realities: The Psychological Function of the Atomic-Utopia Visions | |
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| The Social Implications of Atomic Energy: Prophecies and Prescriptions | |
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| Optimistic Forecasts | |
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| Darker Social Visions | |
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| Experts and Ideologues Offer Their Prescriptions | |
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| Social Science into the Breach | |
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| The Crisis of Morals and Values | |
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| Justifications, Rationalizations, Evasions: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the American Conscience | |
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| "Victory for What?" - The Voice of the Minority | |
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| Atomic Weapons and Judeo-Christian Ethics: The Discourse Begins | |
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| Human Nature, Technological Man, the Apocalyptic Tradition | |
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| Culture and Consciousness in the Early Atomic Era | |
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| Words Fail: The Bomb and the Literary Imagination | |
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| Visions of the Atomic Future in Science Fiction and Speculative Fantasy | |
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| Second Thoughts About Prometheus: The Atomic Bomb and Attitudes Toward Science | |
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| Psychological Fallout: Consciousness and the Bomb | |
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| The End of the Beginning: Settling in for the Long Haul | |
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| Dagwood to the Rescue: The Campaign to Promote the "Peaceful Atom" | |
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| Secrecy and Soft Soap: Soothing Fears of the Bomb | |
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| The Reassuring Message of Civil Defense | |
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| 1949-1950: Embracing the Bomb | |
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| Epilogue: From the H-Bomb to Star Wars: The Continuing Cycles of Activism and Apathy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |