Sean L Malloy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1255302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean L Malloy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean L |
| FAMILY NAME | Malloy |
| SIGNATURE | MALLOY S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1342-8391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Safe Space for Apartheid
Dreams for a Decade
Revolution or Death
The Age of Hiroshima
Palestine and the Politics of Black Identity
Get Out
In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois looked ahead at the dawn of the new century and declared that, “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.” In these two books, historians Nicholas Grant and John Munro take up Du Bois’s challenge to center our understanding of the twentieth century around race an…
Out of Oakland
This book explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members in Cuba is testament to the lasting nature of the international bonds that were forged during the party's heyday. Founded in Oakland, California, in October 1966, the BPP began with no more than a dozen members. Focused on local issues, most notably police brutality, the Panthers patrolled their West Oakland neighborhood armed…
A Hero To Most”
Brian McAllister Linn’s book uses the induction of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley into the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960 as a framing device with which to explore the wrenching changes that gripped the army in the two decades that followed the end of World War II. Linn’s study of this under-examined period within the history of the U.S. military is well-sourced and delivered with nuance and subtlety. The result is a work that is at time perhaps i…
Out of Oakland
In Out of Oakland , Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party. He traces the shifting intersections between the black freedom struggle in the United States, Third World anticolonialism, and the Cold War
Sarah Bridger. Scientists at War
Sarah Bridger’s Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research is a vital and prize-worthy contribution to both the history of American science and the development of the Cold War from the 1950s through the 1980s. Its central concern is with the ethical and policy debates among American scientists involved with work related to national security and the military-industrial complex. Starting with what she dubs the Sputnik “consensus” (2…
Let's Make Peace the Way We Did in Stanleyville and Saigon
Motivated by a desire to preserve American nuclear hegemony and characterized by a richly bipartisan combination of arrogance, incompetence, mendacity, fear, and cynicism, U.S. policy towards the proliferation of nuclear weapons has been disastrously incoherent from the dawn of the nuclear age through the administration of George W. Bush. While historian Shane J. Maddock’s study of the subject is nuanced and well researched, this stark conclusion…
Uptight in Babylon
Journal Article Uptight in Babylon: Eldridge Cleaver’s Cold War, Get access Sean L. Malloy Sean L. Malloy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages 538–571, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht028 Published: 17 April 2013
A Very Pleasant Way to Die”
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the atomic bombs used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki was their accompanying radiation effects. The effects of ionizing radiation on the bomb's survivors have been the subject of intense study and discussion since August 1945. This article examines a related question that has received surprisingly little scholarly attention: what did American scientists and policy makers know about radiation effects pri…
After Hiroshima
In After Hiroshima Matthew Jones combines a history of the Cold War in Asia with an examination of the dual themes of race and nuclear weapons in U.S. foreign policy. The result is an ambitious work that offers a fresh take on such well-covered subjects as the Korean War, the China-Taiwan offshore island crisis, and the origins of American involvement in Vietnam. Jones employs the bomb as “a prism through which to observe the development of Ameri…
Atomic Tragedy
Henry L. Stimson ranks as one of the most important U.S. policy makers of the first half of the twentieth century. His public career in government spanned four decades and included bipartisan service under six presidents. Yet his life and work have received surprisingly little attention from scholars. Sean L. Malloy's richly detailed, well-argued monograph is the latest addition to the growing literature on Stimson that offers a critical analysis…
Four Days in May
Among the myriad controversies surrounding the American use of nuclear weapons against Japanese cities in August 1945 is the seemingly simple question of exactly when President Harry S. Truman decided to use the bomb. The closest thing to a presidential directive regarding use was an order dispatched on July 25, 1945 from Acting Army Chief of Staff Thomas T. Handy to General Carl A. Spaatz, commander of the United States Army Strategy Air Forces.…
The rules of civilized warfare’
This essay explores the evolution of American nuclear targeting during World War II. Initial discussions in Washington focused on the use of the bomb against a military target. The assumption that cities would be the primary target for the atomic bomb apparently originated at Los Alamos in 1943 – 44, largely as a result of technical concerns related to the delivery and functioning of the weapon. Some high-level officials in Washington voiced rese…
The CIA and Congress
David M. Barrett's latest work is a thorough treatment of an important subject in American Cold War history. The challenge of overseeing a secretive intelligence agency in a democracy is the central theme of Barrett's study, which covers the period from the Central Intelligence Agency's (cia) creation through the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco. The author spent considerable space tracing the “imperfect solution” adopted by Congress—oversight by legislat…
The rules of civilized warfare’
This essay explores the evolution of American nuclear targeting during World War II. Initial discussions in Washington focused on the use of the bomb against a military target. The assumption that cities would be the primary target for the atomic bomb apparently originated at Los Alamos in 1943 – 44, largely as a result of technical concerns related to the delivery and functioning of the weapon. Some high-level officials in Washington voiced rese…
The CIA and Congress
David M. Barrett's latest work is a thorough treatment of an important subject in American Cold War history. The challenge of overseeing a secretive intelligence agency in a democracy is the central theme of Barrett's study, which covers the period from the Central Intelligence Agency's (cia) creation through the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco. The author spent considerable space tracing the “imperfect solution” adopted by Congress—oversight by legislat…
The CIA and Congress
David M. Barrett's latest work is a thorough treatment of an important subject in American Cold War history. The challenge of overseeing a secretive intelligence agency in a democracy is the central theme of Barrett's study, which covers the period from the Central Intelligence Agency's (cia) creation through the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco. The author spent considerable space tracing the “imperfect solution” adopted by Congress—oversight by legislat…
The rules of civilized warfare’
This essay explores the evolution of American nuclear targeting during World War II. Initial discussions in Washington focused on the use of the bomb against a military target. The assumption that cities would be the primary target for the atomic bomb apparently originated at Los Alamos in 1943 – 44, largely as a result of technical concerns related to the delivery and functioning of the weapon. Some high-level officials in Washington voiced rese…
Atomic Tragedy
Henry L. Stimson ranks as one of the most important U.S. policy makers of the first half of the twentieth century. His public career in government spanned four decades and included bipartisan service under six presidents. Yet his life and work have received surprisingly little attention from scholars. Sean L. Malloy's richly detailed, well-argued monograph is the latest addition to the growing literature on Stimson that offers a critical analysis…
Four Days in May
Among the myriad controversies surrounding the American use of nuclear weapons against Japanese cities in August 1945 is the seemingly simple question of exactly when President Harry S. Truman decided to use the bomb. The closest thing to a presidential directive regarding use was an order dispatched on July 25, 1945 from Acting Army Chief of Staff Thomas T. Handy to General Carl A. Spaatz, commander of the United States Army Strategy Air Forces.…
After Hiroshima
In After Hiroshima Matthew Jones combines a history of the Cold War in Asia with an examination of the dual themes of race and nuclear weapons in U.S. foreign policy. The result is an ambitious work that offers a fresh take on such well-covered subjects as the Korean War, the China-Taiwan offshore island crisis, and the origins of American involvement in Vietnam. Jones employs the bomb as “a prism through which to observe the development of Ameri…
A Very Pleasant Way to Die”
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the atomic bombs used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki was their accompanying radiation effects. The effects of ionizing radiation on the bomb's survivors have been the subject of intense study and discussion since August 1945. This article examines a related question that has received surprisingly little scholarly attention: what did American scientists and policy makers know about radiation effects pri…
Let's Make Peace the Way We Did in Stanleyville and Saigon
Motivated by a desire to preserve American nuclear hegemony and characterized by a richly bipartisan combination of arrogance, incompetence, mendacity, fear, and cynicism, U.S. policy towards the proliferation of nuclear weapons has been disastrously incoherent from the dawn of the nuclear age through the administration of George W. Bush. While historian Shane J. Maddock’s study of the subject is nuanced and well researched, this stark conclusion…
Uptight in Babylon
Journal Article Uptight in Babylon: Eldridge Cleaver’s Cold War, Get access Sean L. Malloy Sean L. Malloy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages 538–571, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht028 Published: 17 April 2013
Sarah Bridger. Scientists at War
Sarah Bridger’s Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research is a vital and prize-worthy contribution to both the history of American science and the development of the Cold War from the 1950s through the 1980s. Its central concern is with the ethical and policy debates among American scientists involved with work related to national security and the military-industrial complex. Starting with what she dubs the Sputnik “consensus” (2…
Out of Oakland
In Out of Oakland , Sean L. Malloy explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party. He traces the shifting intersections between the black freedom struggle in the United States, Third World anticolonialism, and the Cold War
Out of Oakland
This book explores the evolving internationalism of the Black Panther Party (BPP); the continuing exile of former members in Cuba is testament to the lasting nature of the international bonds that were forged during the party's heyday. Founded in Oakland, California, in October 1966, the BPP began with no more than a dozen members. Focused on local issues, most notably police brutality, the Panthers patrolled their West Oakland neighborhood armed…
A Hero To Most”
Brian McAllister Linn’s book uses the induction of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley into the U.S. Army from 1958 to 1960 as a framing device with which to explore the wrenching changes that gripped the army in the two decades that followed the end of World War II. Linn’s study of this under-examined period within the history of the U.S. military is well-sourced and delivered with nuance and subtlety. The result is a work that is at time perhaps i…
Get Out
In The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois looked ahead at the dawn of the new century and declared that, “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.” In these two books, historians Nicholas Grant and John Munro take up Du Bois’s challenge to center our understanding of the twentieth century around race an…
The Age of Hiroshima
Palestine and the Politics of Black Identity
Revolution or Death
A Safe Space for Apartheid
Dreams for a Decade
Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · History (12 works) · Politics (8 works) · Cold war (7 works) · Nuclear weapon (6 works) · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (6 works) · Economic history (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)