Understanding the imaginary war Culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945–90 /
Ziemann, Benjamin.
Grant, Matthew,1980-
This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable.
Specialized.
Previously issued in print: 2016.
This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Kernwaffe
Atomkrieg
Atomare Rüstung
Ost-West-Konflikt
Imaginary wars and battles.
Nuclear warfare
Imaginary wars and battles.
Nuclear warfare
Cold War.