Atomic Culture

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

By: Michael A. Amundson (Editor), Scott C. Zeman (Editor)

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Paperback | 4 May 2004

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In Atomic Culture, eight scholars examine the range of cultural expressions of atomic energy from the 1940s to the early twenty-first century, including comic books, nuclear landscapes, mushroom-cloud postcards, the Los Alamos suburbs, uranium-themed board games, future atomic waste facilities, and atomic-themed films such as Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Kid. Despite the growing interest in atomic culture and history, the body of relevant scholarship is relatively sparse. Atomic Culture opens new doors into the field by providing a substantive, engaging, and historically based consideration of the topic that will appeal to students and scholars of the Atomic Age as well as general readers.

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""Atomic Culture" demonstrates the rich field of subjects available in the history of the bomb . . . [and] offers new ideas and understandings of the continual influence of the atom on American life."
- "Western Historical Quarterly"
""Atomic Culture" points to one inescapable conclusion: For all the trappings of nostalgia and the distancing mechanisms by which we seek to relegate it to 'history, ' the atomic age is not merely a part of our past."
- "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists"
"Atomic Culture points to one inescapable conclusion: For all the trappings of nostalgia and the distancing mechanisms by which we seek to relegate it to 'history, ' the atomic age is not merely a part of our past."
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Introduction	p. 1
Atomic comics : the comic book industry confronts the nuclear age	p. 11
Reinventing Los Alamos : code switching and suburbia at America's Atomic city	p. 33
"Uranium on the cranium" : uranium mining and popular culture	p. 49
Confronting the "capitalist bomb" : the neutron bomb and American culture	p. 65
The nuclear past in the landscape present	p. 81
The Mushroom cloud as kitsch	p. 101
Is this the sum of our fears? Nuclear imagery in post-Cold War cinema	p. 125
American monument : the waste isolation pilot plant	p. 149
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