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Nuclear Culture

Scientists

  • Bernal, J. D., The Social Function of Science (London, 1939).
  • Damms, Richard U., ‘James Killian, the Technological Capabilities Panel, and the Emergence of President Eisenhower’s “Scientific-Technological Elite’, Diplomatic History, 24 (2000), 57-78.
  • Goodchild, Peter, Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove (London, 2004).
  • Graham, Loren R., Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History (Cambridge, 1993).
  • Gusterson, Hugh, Nuclear Rites. A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (Berkeley, 1996).
  • Jones, Greta, Science, Politics and the Cold War (London, 1988).
  • Josephson, Paul R., New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science (Princeton, NJ, 1997).
  • Krementsov, Nikolai, Stalinist Science (Princeton: PUP, 1997).
  • Manzione, Joseph, ‘“Amusing and Amazing and Practical and Military”: The Legacy of Scientific Internationalism in American Foreign Policy, 1945-1963’, Diplomatic History, 24 (2000), 21-56.
  • Marsh, Rosalind J., Soviet Fiction since Stalin: Science, Politics and Literature (London: Croom Helm, 1986). PG.3097.8.M2.
  • Russell, Betrand, The Impact of Science on Society (London, 1952).
  • Teller, Edward, The Legacy of Hiroshima (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1962).
  • Tietge, David J., Flash Effect: Science and the Rhetorical Origins of Cold War America (Athens, OH, 2002).
  • Visvanathan, Shiv, ‘Atomic Physics: The Career of an Imagination’, in Ashis Nandy (ed.), Science, Hegemony and Violence: A Requiem for Modernity (Delhi, 1988), 113-66.
  • Wang, Jessica, American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism and the Cold War (Chapel Hill, 1999).
  • Werskey, Gary, The Visible College (London, 1978).


    • Nuclear Fear

  • Boyer, Paul L., By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (Chapel Hill, NC, 1994).
  • Chapman, James, ‘The BBC and the Censorship of The War Game (1965), Journal of Contemporary History, 41/1 (2006), 75-94.
  • De Groot, Gerard J., The Bomb: A Life (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004).
  • Grossman, Andrew D., Neither Dead nor Red: Civilian Defense and American Political Development during the Early Cold War (New York and London, 2001).
  • Hennessy, Peter, The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War (London, 2002).
  • Hersey, John, Hiroshima (London, 1946).
  • Holloway, David, Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (New Haven, 1994).
  • Jungk, Robert, Children of the Ashes: The People of Hiroshima (1959; Harmondsworth, 1963).
  • Langer, Mark, ‘Why the Atom is Our Friend: Disney, General Dynamics and USS Nautillus’, Art History, 18 (1995), 63-96.
  • Lifton, Robert J. and Greg Mitchell, Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial (New York, 1995).
  • McEnaney, Laura, Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties (Princeton, NJ, 2000).
  • Oakes, Guy, The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture (New York, 1994).
  • Rose, Kenneth D., One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture (New York, 2001).
  • Scott, Alison M. and Christopher D. Geist (eds), The Writing on the Cloud: American Culture Confronts the Atomic Bomb (Lanham, MD, 1997).
  • Schwenger, Peter, ‘Writing the Unthinkable’, Critical Inquiry, 13 (1986), 33-48.
  • Weart, Spencer R., Nuclear Fear: A History of Images (Cambridge, MA, 1988).
  • Winkler, Alan M., Life under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom (New York, 1993).
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