Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography. -- .
Über den Autor
Matthew Grant is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of EssexnnBenjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Sheffield
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: The cold war as an imaginary war - Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemannn1. The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the cold war - Eva Horn n2. Building peace, fearing the apocalypse: Nuclear danger in Soviet cold war culture, 1945-91 - Miriam Dobson n3. Nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present - Paul Boyer n4. The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 - Matthew Grant n5. German angst? Debating cold war anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 - Benjamin Ziemann n6. After Hiroshima. Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique - Jason Dawsey n7. Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's cold war - Ann Sheriff n8. Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 - Daniel Gerstern9. 'The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots.' Physicians and their therapies for the Cold War - Claudia Kemper n10. Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world - Paul Rubinson n11. Images of nuclear war in U.S. government films from the early cold war - Lars Nowak nIndex
Klappentext
Presents a comparative overview of the cultural imaginations of nuclear weapons and the anticipation of nuclear destruction. It considers representations of elements of the Cold War in popular culture and thought across Europe, Japan, USSR and the USA, providing a significant addition to Cold War historiography.
