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