Understanding the imaginary war : culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945-90 /: culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945-90. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Matthew Grant, Benjamin Ziemann.
• Editors: Grant, Matthew, 1980-; Ziemann, Benjamin
• Contents: Introduction. The cold war as an imaginary war -- Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann 1. The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the cold war -- Eva Horn 2. Building peace, fearing the apocalypse: Nuclear danger in Soviet cold war culture, 1945-91 -- Miriam Dobson 3. Nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present -- Paul Boyer 4. The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 -- Matthew Grant 5. German angst? Debating cold war anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 -- Benjamin Ziemann 6. After Hiroshima. Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique -- Jason Dawsey 7. Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's cold war -- Ann Sheriff 8. Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 -- Daniel Gerster 9. 'The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots.' Physicians and their therapies for the Cold War -- Claudia Kemper 10. Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world -- Paul Rubinson 11. Images of nuclear war in U.S. government films from the early cold war -- Lars Nowak Index.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.660904; War; Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects; Cold War; Cold War in popular culture; Imaginary wars and battles; Cold War (1945-1989) in popular culture; Imaginary wars and battles; Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects; War; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Kernwaffe; Atomkrieg; Atomare Rüstung; Ost-West-Konflikt; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526101334; 1526101335; 9781526101327; 1526101327
• Related ISBNs: 9781784994402; 1784994405
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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