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Under the shadow : the atomic bomb and Cold War narratives /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seed, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Cold War in literature.
Atomic bomb in literature.
Cold War in motion pictures.
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.