| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DUE DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introductions | |
| 2 | Key Questions, Debates, and Approaches to the Nuclear Age | |
| Unit 1 - The Bomb and Atomic Culture | ||
| 3 | The Dawn of the Nuclear Age | |
| 4 | Duck and Cover: Civil Defense | |
| 5 | Domestic Containment and the Nuclear Family | Unit 1 paper due |
| Unit 2 - Enemies from Within: The Culture and Politics of Security | ||
| 6 | McCarthyism and the Red Scare | |
| 7 | Sex, Gender, and the Lavender Scare | |
| 8 | Psychology in an Age of Anxiety | Unit 2 paper due |
| Unit 3 - The Military - Industrial - Academic Complex | ||
| 9 | The Emergence of Computing Technology | |
| 10 | Humans, Machines, and the Reorganization of Work | |
| 11 |
MIT and the Cold War Guest Speaker Professor David Kaiser, MIT | |
| 12 | Organization Men and Their Critics | Unit 3 paper due |
| Unit 4 - The Politics of Space and Race | ||
| 13 | Suburbanization, White Flight, and Urban Crisis | |
| 14 | The Malling of America | |
| 15 | Race and the Space Race | Unit 4 paper due |
| Unit 5 - The Global Cold War | ||
| 16 | The Global Cold War and the Making of Three Worlds | |
| 17 |
China's Cold War Guest Lecturer Professor Christopher R. Leighton, MIT | |
| 18 | Cold War Civil Rights | Unit 5 paper due |
| Unit 6 - Rebels, Critics, and the End of Consensus | ||
| 19 | Delinquents and Rebels: The 1950s as Prelude to the 1960s | |
| 20 | The End of Consensus: The Student Movement and the New Left | |
| 21 | Rethinking Nature in a Nuclear Age | |
| 22 | The Return of Fear and the Anti-Nuclear Movement | Unit 6 paper due |
| Conclusions | ||
| 23 | Legacies of the Cold War and the Unfolding Nuclear Age | |
| 24 | Closing Thoughts and Paper Presentations | Final essay due |