Understanding the imaginary war : culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945-90 / edited by Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grant, Matthew, 1980-

Ziemann, Benjamin.

Series:

Cultural history of modern war

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Nuclear warfare--Social aspects.

Nuclear warfare.

Imaginary wars and battles.

Physical Description:

xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction: the Cold War as an imaginary war / Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann

The apocalyptic fiction: shaping the future in the Cold War / Eva Horn

Building peace, fearing the apocalypse? Nuclear danger in Soviet Cold War culture / Miriam Dobson

Sixty years and counting: nuclear themes in American culture, 1945 to the present / Paul Boyer

The imaginative landscape of nuclear war in Britain, 1945-65 / Matthew Grant

German angst? Debating Cold War anxieties in West Germany, 1945-90 / Benjamin Ziemann

After Hiroshima: Günther Anders and the history of anti-nuclear critique / Jason Dawsey

Hiroshima/Nagasaki, civil rights and anti-war protest in Japan's Cold War / Ann Sherif

Catholic anti-communism, the bomb and perceptions of apocalypse in West Germany and the USA, 1945-90 / Daniel Gerster

"The nuclear arms race is psychological at its roots": physicians and their therapies for the Cold War / Claudia Kemper

Imagining the apocalypse: nuclear winter in science and the world / Paul Rubinson

Images of nuclear war in US government films from the early Cold War / Lars Nowak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781784994402

1784994405

OCLC:

945950366