Under the shadow : the atomic bomb and Cold War narratives /
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| Language: | English |
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Kent, Ohio :
Kent State University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.