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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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Autor principal: Seed, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2012.
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.