Under the Shadow : The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives /
In Pat Frank's 1959 novel Alas, Babylon, the character Helen says of her children: "All their lives, ever since they've known anything, they've lived under the shadow of war--atomic war. For them the abnormal has become normal." The threat of nuclear annihilation was a const...
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Kent, Ohio :
The Kent State University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The atom
- from H.G. Wells to Leo Szilard
- The dawn of the atomic age
- the bomb and Hiroshima
- The debate over nuclear refuge
- Do-it-yourself survival
- Philip Wylie on the state of the nation
- Cultural cycles in Walter M. Miller's A canticle for Leibowitz
- The pathology of warfare in Bernard Wolfe's Limbo
- Push-button holocaust in Mordecai Roshwald's Level 7
- Whales, submarines, and the Bedford incident
- Nuclear safety procedures in Fail-safe
- Uncovering the death wish in Dr. Strangelove
- Mapping the postnuclear landscape
- Future reportage on World War III
- Beyond the Cold War.